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The local range I go to (Memorial Shooting Center) offers to clean weapons while you wait. It's pretty pricey. $30 for handguns, and $40 for rifles. Not sure whether they actually get any takers at those rates.

terryg wrote:

Purplehood wrote:I hated cleaning my weapon in the Marines.

Yeah, I hated it too. But for me, I think it was because I hated cleaning to someone else's arbitrary standards. When I am cleaning my own gun, it's clean when I say it's clean - and that's good enough for me. So I actually enjoy it.

I'm with TerryG. I absolutely HATED cleaning my weapon in the Army. The Armorer got to play closet Nazi and abuse his power, or so it seemed. Also, I wasn't actually cleaning MY weapon. The only time I had a specific weapon assigned on a long term basis was in Desert Storm, and I didn't mind cleaning that one (partly because I knew I might need to trust my life to it).

Now that I have my own personal weapons, and I also may need to trust my life to them, I actually enjoy breaking them down and cleaning them. I clean my Glocks (and all other weapons) after every range session regardless of how many rounds I have fired through them. I would never trust someone else to clean one of my guns, or even to reassemble it for that matter.