I find the task of cleaning guns quite tedious and I have to ideas A. A mechanism that would clean the barrel and action when you press a button, or B. a bullet that contains some type of cleaning fluid that when fired coats the barrel. Perhaps cleaning and lubrication fluids that come in those little C02 cartridges that you could insert into the gun, and would clean them. Anyone who owns a gun I'm sure can appreciate how it would help to have something like this. Not only that I'm sure it would save lives in the Military if a soldier couldn't clean his gun for some reason or another. I'm sure it's do able, but I'm not an engineer so I don't know Would be nice if an engineer/designer could comment on the feasibility of this.
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It's not just the barrel that needs to be cleaned. You want to prevent the rest of the gun from rusting or jamming.
The 'self-cleaning' idea would be a difficult one, because the cleaner itself would be a mechanism, and what would clean it? I assume you mean that its itegrated as part of the weapon.
I really like your 'stick-it-in-and shoot' CO2 idea, but really that's what I do with the WD-40 can already. I just haven't figured out how to get it to pull a patch up and down the barrel.
When I bought my 22, the box said stuff about not needing to clean it, about how it was self-cleaning, but it's really not.
'Real' gun people are big about disassembly and inspection--cleaning every part. My locks are never taken apart--I suspect most aren't.