Is it safe to submerge a steel gun in some sort of cleaning fluid?

soaked a blued revolver

YES!
I have soaked blue steel revolvers, etc. in Hoppies #9 and ED's RED without any problems. You have to drain them for several hours.
 
Get C&S's Dunk Kit! I really don't know how I cleaned my guns beforehand. I just field strip whatever gun i'm cleaning, hang it from a wire shirt hanger and put it in the bucket for about 20 minutes. EVERYTHING comes off either in the bucket by itself or just one or two swipes with a nylon brush. Great investment, I absolutely recommend it.
 
Ammo box half full of fuel oil, a little ATF, a little motor oil, a little WD-40, a little gun oil, whenever a can is coming up empty it gets dumped in the cleaning can. Pull the grips, dunk the gun, do what I was going to do and when I'm good and ready in an hour or a week I pull the gun and what the air hose doesn't get the brush will and then the air hose. Then I lube what needs to be lubed, grips back on and I'm good to go. Every couple of months I strain the mix and add more fuel oil if its getting low. No special formula and I don't have a rust problem on any of my handguns. Only thing I really do any work on is the bore, my rag has to come out of the bore white before I consider that gun clean.
 
So taking them into the shower with me at night isnt a good thing? Saw it in Big Jake, he wore em into the shower I thought it was to clean em out after a long ride in the sandy desert. :)

I used to use rem clean, it had a scrubbing type of action that cleaned them up real nice.
 
The important thing to remember is that when you emerse a gun, it's very important to have a compressed air source to get the liquid out of all the nooks and crannies.
 
I'm with Wagonman ...... also use an ultrasonic cleaning/lubing system and compressed-air blowout in between. Saves a lotta time and work. (I'm lazy)
 
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