How to Care For Your Concealed Carry Pistol

Cleaning Your Concealed Carry Pistol

Providing maintenance and cleaning for concealed carry pistols is not an option but a requirement. Your concealed carry pistol can’t save your life if it won’t fire and a neglected weapon can indeed let you down when you need it most. Far too many gun owners fail to clean their firearms and some never do until there is a problem. That problem can be one that ends up causing injury or even death. Just carrying your weapon can change its condition and reliability, even if you haven’t fired it since it was last cleaned.

Reliability is one of the likely factors that affected your choice in the weapon you carry, but after purchase it is up to you to provide the maintenance that sustains the reliability that you count on.

Sweat

Sweat is one of the factors that adversely affect guns. It is composed of water, ammonia, urea, salts, and sugar. Sweat will, over time cause a firearm to rust. It’s a good idea to provide a spray with a little Rem Oil and a rubdown with a cloth to lubricate and protect. Go light on the oil as it can gum up the action.

Lint

Lint and other debris from a pocket can cause a real problem in your concealed carry pistol’s reliability. The lint is especially bad when carried in a pocket or purse. The contact with the fabric of clothing, pet hair, dust, grime from the oil in your hands, and our own shedding will find its way into every crack and crevice of the weapon. Routine cleaning will keep it at bay. Using gun holsters is the best protection for your firearm. It will reduce lint and other debris, but you still have to clean and maintain your firearm.

Magazines

Those who carry a revolver don’t have to worry about a magazine. It’s amazing how many people neglect to care for the magazine; yet they also tend to accumulate lint, dirt, and dust. When you clean the gun, you should inspect, clean, and lubricate the magazine as well.

The best way to clean a magazine is to disassemble it and wipe it down. There is no universal disassembly for magazines, though many of them have a removable floor plate that allows the spring and follower to be removed. Some gun owners like to lightly rub the spring down with oil, but keep in mind oil attracts dust. I use a tiny amount on a microfiber cloth, and then go back over the spring with a good rub using a clean microfiber cloth to remove excess oil.

Check For Loose, or Damaged Parts

Most modern guns for sale can take the rigors of carry and abuse. The constant motion of carrying, being sat upon, bumped, and dropped can lead to a cracked grip or loose screws and pins. Routine inspection and providing needed maintenance will ensure your concealed carry pistol will be operable when you need it.

Cleaning Safely

The number one safety factor that gun owners must realize when cleaning and inspecting a weapon is to ensure it is unloaded. Keep in mind, even though you remove the magazine a round may still be in the chamber. Look into the chamber to ensure no round remains there. Then look into the barrel from the back side to confirm that there is no lodged round in the barrel. Do NOT look into the barrel from the front. Do not consider a gun unloaded until you have inspected the chamber as well as the barrel.

The number two cleaning safety rule is to keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction, treat it as if it were still loaded and keep your finger off of the trigger! It’s a sobering fact to realize that more than half of non-intentional gunshot wounds occur during activities such as cleaning, repairing, loading, and unloading guns. Be safe and don’t be a statistic.

Cleaning at GrabAGun

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