 Hey guys, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and this is part two of cleaning and lubing guns. This time we're going to do a pistol. We're going to use a Glock 19 as an example here because it's one of the more common handguns. Most modern handguns are going to function the same, okay? So there will be some way to disassemble the firearm for Glock. It's incredibly simple, right? For the rest of them, you might have to look that up in your owner's manual, okay? And from there, again, most modern guns are going to break down into three or four pieces and that's about it. You'll have the frame, the barrel, the spring, and then the slide assembly here, okay? Cleaning a pistol is incredibly simple and really should take you just a couple of minutes. It'll take me longer because I'm going to talk you through it. But the first thing I like to do is I will take the barrel, put it in the cup, and I will just pour some solvent down it, okay? Because I like to run a bore snake through my pistol barrels. If you don't have to, some people won't do that at all, they won't really bother to clean the barrel. And that's fine. Let's, again, personal preference to me, but I'll just run some solvent down the barrel. I'm going to run a bore snake through there in a minute. The thing you probably need the most attention is the upper here. So I will just dip my handy-dandy toothbrush here in some of that solvent, and then I'm just going to kind of generally brush all the crud and big gunk out of here. Again, I'm not trying to get it perfectly clean. I'm just trying to get the big chunks of carbon and any other build-up out of here, okay? Once that's done, I'll take a cloth, generally wipe that down. When you're cleaning your gun, it's always a good idea to inspect and make sure that everything seems in good working order, make sure nothing's out of order, okay? Spray, not much to do with that, just wipe it off, okay? Problem solved there. In here, same thing, I'm just going to take my toothbrush, I'm just going to brush any good gunk out of here, just get the rails all clean, get the kind of inner parts all clean, then I'll gently use a rag, wipe that off. Make sure not to bend any parts that don't need to be bent, okay? Don't break anything, be a little delicate with what you're doing here. Now when it comes to lubing the pistol, lubing pistols is pretty simple. So there are four metal rails here, two, three, four, and that's where we're going to end up putting the lube, okay? I'm going to run a bore snake through my barrel and then we'll lube this up and reassemble. So again, I will use a bore snake, okay? Can find it on Amazon. I'm just going to run that through that barrel one time. Always go back to front, okay? Don't go front to back, that would be bad, okay? For me, I like to just kind of polish off the feed ramp here, for some reason for me that just gives me personal satisfaction, reminds me that my gun has been cleaned recently, like a nice bright, shiny feed ramp. That's just a personal preference thing, nothing says you have to do that. But I would just at least wipe it off, okay? Once that gun is disassembled, or excuse me, once it's cleaned we'll reassemble it. So I'll place the barrel back in there and I'll place the spring back in there. Now when it comes to lube, again we're just going to lube those four rails. Alternatively, you could put lube in the actual slide on the slide part, okay? And that would work as well. It's really personal preference. I've always just lubed the rails, so that's what I'm going to do. Doesn't take a lot, okay? I'm just trying to put a dab of lube on the rails. Really doesn't take a lot of lube in order for this to run well, okay? Feed the slide back on the gun, watch and check. Yep, okay, everything works. From here I'll just wipe the gun off. I would also give it a time to check your light, make sure that's mostly clear, okay? That one's pretty good to go. And that's it, that's lubing a pistol, okay? Takes about two minutes. Cleaning and lubing a pistol takes a couple minutes. Does not take long. If you really want to get thorough with it, I guess you could. But in general, I have backed off a lot on the extensiveness of cleaning the pistol. Again, it's a modern gun, Glock, M&P, SIGs, whatever. You keep it lubed, you keep it generally clean, it's going to run. You don't need to pass a white glove inspection with it. If it meets your personal fancy to be more thorough than that, by all means, knock yourself out. But that's really about all you need in order for this thing to function. Do brave deeds and endure.