If you carry a concealed handgun, I’ll bet it is 100 percent clean and well-lubricated. No dust gathering in the ejection port or trigger mechanism. No leftover gunpowder residue around the muzzle. Oil still visible in the slide rails. If not, go clean your gun while following all the gun safety rules. Come back here when you’re done.
Allow me to make an obvious point: Guns get dirty and need cleaning, even when they’ve only been carried and not shot. Unfortunately, guns typically only get cleaned after a session at the range and, even then, how many times have you instead opted to holster your dirty gun, promising to get to it later?
I’m guilty too.
Most of the time, we take our gun to a gun bench or other area in our home for a cleaning. Sometimes we may bring some cleaning supplies with us to the range. These are fine solutions, but I’ve found I’ll actually clean more often if I keep a simple, universal cleaning kit with me at all times.
Otis Technology’s Tactical Cleaning Kit has become a constant companion and regularly gets called into service. Fitting in the palm of my hand, the kit can handle cleaning duties for rifles, pistols and shotguns. Inside are bronze bore brushes for .22/.223, .270, .30/.308/.30-06/.30-30, .38/9mm, .45-cal and 12-ga. as well as cotton patches in 2-inch and 3-inch sizes. Also inside are three slotted tips and two patch savers as well as an 8-inch, 30-inch and 34-inch aircraft-grade Memory-Flex cable and thread connector. What else? A small and large “obstruction remover” to do exactly that; these also double as the included t-handle base. Finally, the kit includes a chamber flag, a half-ounce of Bio-CLP and an instruction manual.
The soft pack case holding it all measures 4 inches x 4 inches x 2.5 inches, and the kit retails for $59.99. All the gear packs into the case so nice and tidy you might be averse to getting it all out. Don’t be. In fact, just pull out everything, spread it out on the counter in front of you and be amazed at how much is in there. Then, safely and carefully clean a gun. But just one. And then put everything back in its place in the case. Find another gun and repeat. In two cleanings, you’ll master the ins and outs of getting the gear in and out. In three cleanings it’ll be fun.
Made in the USA and backed by the Otis “No Nonsense” Warranty, the Tactical Cleaning Kit allows you to bring the cleaning with you wherever you go. Use it to clean your gun and, maybe, clear your conscience. Dirty-gun-guilty no more.
