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I'd say modern guns can do at least 1k rounds.
No hypothesis for this besides intuition
So I have one cheap-ass Radical AR that I love to abuse. It went 1,500 rounds before it’s first malfunction. And that happened while I was shooting with the gun sideways while under a car. So there’s a good chance I had the ejection port too close to the ground.
I pumped another 500 rounds through it without issue. I bet I could have gotten away with a lot more, but I was out of ammo and the training course was over.
I still haven’t cleaned it. Partly because I’m curious, but mostly because I’m lazy.
ARs pretty much only get dirty to a certain point on the moving bits.
If you take a good look at the bolt, it's almost designed to scrape it's self and wheeze the chunks out.
Definitely depends on the gun. If you zap carry it's probably twice as long since you're technically lubricating them every time you holster.
I will say from experience the dumb rotating barrel on a Px4 locks up if you don't at least give it a rub on the ejection port every so often. I made it about 600-750 rounds without cleaning before I had an issue. It didn't stop cycling, I just couldn't manually rack the slide. I've never had repeatable issues like that on any other gun.