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Mike1951 wrote:Of course, I have nothing to back this up, but I've always suspected 'cleaning my gun' was an attempt to disguise horseplay or other irresponsible behavior.

For the ones that actually WERE cleaning their guns, they're just too ignorant to know how to clear the firearm or just too stupid to do so.

Ya know, A firearm never goes off while cleaning...attempted disassembly, at best. But ignorance and negligence are never an excuse. IMHO

Hey skipper, that no ammo room is a good idea.
Kitchen to clean in though, My wife would kill me for that.
Loading bench for me. That room is mine.

If you promise her a new refrigerator, she may let you use the kitchen.

Seriously, that just happened to be the room, or "designated area," I found that I could label as "no-ammo." I was dead-set about the quarantine, so I didn't even want an area I had to walk through to get to and from the front door, back door, or garage. The kitchen was it.

An old adage goes: "There are two kinds of gun owners: those who have never had an accidental discharge...and those who will."

I never have. And I do whatever I can to prove that adage wrong.

I prefer to use the kitchen counter as it is often off limits during cooking hours!

I use the kitchen, too. Partly because I prefer to stand, and the sink comes in handy (the disposer doesn't mind an run-off drop or two of gun oil), and, the biggie: the kitchen is the room I've designated in the house as the one where no ammo is allowed. I stick to that stringently. No ammo of any kind ever crosses the threshold to the kitchen. If I'm taking a firearm into the kitchen, it gets opened and inspected before I ever step onto the tile. It sounds simplistic and Adrian Monk-ish, but I think that a "no-ammo room" is a good safety policy for everyone.