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I agree that it's good to be helpful, but I have struggled in similar situations in the past to immediately come up with appropriate wording that is "not rude" and that has great potential to generate more trouble than my butting in is worth. So, I generally just opt to follow that old Chinese proverb, "A closed mouth gathers no foot".

As a general rule, I try to not butt into the conversations of other people, so I wouldn't have said anything either.

On the other hand, I've heard some interesting info of questionable reasonableness at gun counters before as well. Once I observed a family obviously new to handguns handling a Sig P238 and a Glock 26 at a gun counter in a local store. The "expert" behind the counter was obviously pro-Glock and even made the statement: "And the G26 doesn't even have to be cleaned - ever - because, well, it's a Glock."

I started to say that both Glock and Sig have reputations for being accurate firearms with excellent records for reliability and while it is true that with powders used in modern ammunition and materials of construction used in modern firearms, the need to be overly obsessive about keeping the firearm spotless at all times is probably not what it used to be, I also don't know anybody that would trust their life to a firearm that they have practiced with enough to be confident in, but never cleaned.

Then I remembered that it was not my conversation and moved on...