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After reading these posts, I believe it would be difficult for a knowledgeable gun owner to fatally shoot himself while cleaning a gun.

Maybe it's the setting. Maybe depressed folks have suicide in the back of their minds and sit down to clean their firearms and while in the act of cleaning decide it's time.

Unfortunately, in this case, his family was home.

We have a friend who actually went to a shooting range, rented a pistol and shot himself there.

So like someone already posted, maybe they are just classified as "gun cleaning" accidents.