My whole family having been military, Officers and Enlisted, and my self having put in 13 years I was totally indoctrinated into the
clean it every chance you get philosophy.
I followed that philosophy for many years until one day I got lazy and really didn't feel like cleaning all the guns I shot at the range that day. Took some of them out a while later along with some different ones. Didn't clean them either and the ones I'd shot before and hadn't cleaned didn't fall apart, blow up or all of a sudden shoot minute of barn side.
None of the horrible things I'd been led to believe by my father, uncles and grandfathers or by drill sargeants, shooting instructors or any other gun expert had happened.
MY GUNS WERE FINE!
My relatives were turning over in their graves, they haunted me but I persevered and didn't clean my guns for another 2 or 3 months. AND they still worked just fine! Imagine that.
Now - I clean 'em at least once a year if they haven't been fired in that time and after every 3rd or 4th range trip.
The only exception is my carry gun. It gets function checked every time I put it on and relubed about every 2 or 3 weeks. It gets fired once a month or so and cleaned afterwards but that's more for inspection purposes than anything else - plus it calms the ghosts for a bit.
So don't sweat it. Your guns aren't going to rust away, freeze up, lose all their accuracy, or any of the other things you've been told or imagined.
Enjoy your guns by shooting them and if you enjoy cleaning them then do so (there was a time when I actually enjoyed cleaning my guns - grew out of that though
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EDIT:
If you're really new at the gun game I'd advise a regular cleaning regimen for a while. Not so much to keep your new acquisitions clean but to get you very familiar and comfortable with taking them down, inspecting the parts etc etc etc...