Personally, I take great pleasure in cleaning my guns. Sitting down after an evening of shooting, cracking open that first beer, and smelling that mixture of solvent and gunpowder takes me to one of those happy-places. I'm not suggesting that anyone who doesn't do that is in some way harming their guns, but I enjoy it. Some guns are easier to clean than others. Fixed-barrels like my Walther PPK take much longer... 45 minutes or so. I can do Glocks in about 10 minutes or so. A gun with an external hammer will take a little longer to do it right. None of my guns require tools to strip, so that isn't an issue. Shotguns take 25 minutes or so, but that's because I obsess about making sure that the barrel is spotless when I hold it up to a light. I'm not as much of a fan about cleaning my rifles though. I don't strip down to barrel-removal and I hate running the patch down a closed pipe. All time estimates are just guesses, though. I don't time myself nor do I particularly hurry. Have I ever put a gun away dirty? Of course I have. In fact, the Glock digging into my side right now saw a little range time recently and didn't make it to the cleaning table... of course that was because I didn't want the wife to know that I did a little shooting when I should have been doing a little working.