I'm not either, but this thread is interesting...
yes
no(qualfied) as mike says, revolver is a spec miata, its mechanical and its all exposed, you have to work hard to get the most out of it. jay's post offer the same sentiment without the miata reference.
no, it won't matter, but it does screw up points for IPSC team(probably)
The last point is probably the one that matters the most at the bottom from a pure competition standpoint. I though it said in the USPSA mission statement or bylaws that the point of USPSA is to field competitors to IPSC world shoot. I went looking and could not find that statement anywhere, but for some reason I vividly remember reading something like that. It is the case though...and i fully get the argument that of the few thousand active uspsa members in any given year, only a fraction even know about IPSC, nevermind contention for a WS slot.