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>>2883759
Lol nope.

Anyone can take apart an automatic to it's basic parts for cleaning, it's easy as pie.
For a revolver, beyond taking out the cylinder, most people wouldn't know what the fuck to do, especially with the lockwork, that shit is NOT for the layman to muck with. Or disassembling the cylinder itself, have fun with that if you don't know what you're doing.

Reliability just about equals out, but clearing a malfunction with an automatic is typically the matter of a second, while clearing a malfunction with a revolver simply won't be happening in a firefight.

In a post-apocalyptic setting, a revolver would have the advantages of being purely mechanical, and thus it doesn't have to worry about if the power of the ammunition is enough to cycle it, you cycle it manually, so you could use meek and dirty blackpowder handloads and it wouldn't matter, the other would be that revolvers don't use magazines, you only use the bullets, finding or making magazines might not be the easiest in this setting. And I guess it's easy to collect the spent casings for reloads.

An automatic however, is faster to shoot and reload, can hold WAY more rounds, easier to handle, can be suppressed, etc.