Are soldiers allowed to clean weapons in barracks?

We did when I was in basic, but then again, we kept our M14 in our wall lockers too.

In the days the units barracks were directly attached to the units building, and the barracks policy stated no personally owned firearms will be stored in the buildings.. YES it was common for a group of SM to end up in a barracks room, play some music and clean. It was also common to catch some doing the wrong thing and that means anything other than cleaning weapons and bring the entire unit back to common areas to clean under direct supervision.

Now with SM quarters being detached from the unit area, how would they get that weapon to the room? would have to be mil vehicle and what does the local policy states for weapons in the quarters? Does it still say "POW's" ? or is it phrased as "No firearms" or "No weapons" ?

we always did in the late 80's early 90's at Camp Lejeune...Best way to recover from a late nite of carousing, was a long day of weapons maintenance:)

We weren't allowed to in Afghanistan, we were told it was to prevent NDs, bit I fail to see how the two are connected.

Other than that, whether at basic training, annual training, or any other place we've had barrack, we've cleaned weapons in the barracks.

You use to be able too, but that was changing as I got close to retirement due to the new way they were trying to improve the housing for soldiers. I am ignorant to how it is now.

We always did. I don't know about these days. I remember showering w m16's, 203's and 60's.

We plopped down on our rucks in the parking lot behind the company area as soon as we came back from field for the first cleaning then the second and third we could move into the co area never in the barracks

we did in Basic and in the 1/509th we did because the Arms Room was just down the Hall from our rooms

Depends on the Commanders policy. We didn't let them clean them in their rooms because it took forever to get them turned in. We did allow them to clean them in the common area.

Of course, esp in BCT, if weapons racks still in the barracks. Our M-1s, in BCT, were available 24/7.