Originally Posted by
dbrowne1
The "fleet of guns" was meant to imply that they've seen many examples of these guns, over a long period of time and many rounds without cleaning, as the basis for their opinions. Dean Caputo, for example, is a Colt armorer instructor and armorer for a police department in California. He has a Colt LE6933 (11.5" barrel) which more dirty and more finicky than their longer-barreled cousins which he has tortured by putting literally thousands of rounds through without cleaning - just lubing. I don't recall the exact count but I know it was well above 3,000 rounds before he cleaned it. It never malfunctioned.
I clean my guns a lot more frequently than that, but if just put a couple boxes through a gun to verify my zeros, I'm not going to be rushing home to clean it and I have complete confidence that it will run fine if I pick it up a month later as long as it's lubed.