X.  Miscellaneous
    C. Lubricants
       2. The Case Against Petroleum Based Lubricants

by Peter Alan Kasler (tmi@crl.com)

              The reason that traditional petroleum-based lucricants
          are bad in pistols is chiefly because they have a great
          affinity for dust and other airborn particulate matter,
          including unburnt powder, of which there is a lot depending
          on which ammunition is used. Such unburnt powder, dust, and
          other grunge that combines with gun oil and/or the residue
          of gun oil that remains after the original stuff cooks off
          during the firing process, leaves a black, gritty sludge
          that really screws up an otherwise fine pistol.  This
          information is from Peter Alan Kasler, and more detailed
          arguments are available in his book, "GLOCK: The New Wave
          in Combar Handguns."