Carry a "Dirty" Weapon?

[Double Naught Spy]

I would never carry a freshly cleaned weapon. How do I know it will fire next time? How do I know I didn't put something together wrong.

Every carry gun I have gets one magazine or cylinder through after cleaning.

Makes good sense to me.

My home carbine is the same, it gets one mag through and then goes beside the bed.

As noted, guns can be function tested without actually firing them.

How do you know it will fire the next time? Whether you test fire or not, you have no way of knowing if the gun will fire the next time or not. What you do know is that it fired properly the last time you shot it. So you are basically extrapolating from the past to the future where you are assuming that sense the gun fired last time you shot it, that it will continue to function and fire properly the next time you shoot it. This is not always the case.

In many gun failure incidents, the gun was functioning properly up to the last shot before some part failed and resulted in the gun not being able to fire. So that is one of the dangers of extrapolating the past into the future as what happened in the past is mutually exclusive and does not determine what will happen in the future.

From a breakdown to do a typical fieldstrip clean, I find it hard that any reassembly mistakes or problems would go unnoticed via hand cycling and working the moving parts.

 

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

I've never noticed any functional difference between the way my guns work when they're dirty and when they're clean. They all work reliably, clean or dirty. Or I send 'em in for repair.

As for reassembling your carry piece incorrectly, well, I'm not sure what to say. Part of being competent with your gun is knowing how to take it apart and put it back together correctly, and knowing how to do a function check. If you can't do that then you need to learn.

Besides, If you're not certain a gun is assembled properly then you shouldn't fire it.

Just my own personal opinion, not meant to offend anyone.