Best way to remove rust

Heavy Rust - navel jelly and steel wool...if you go this route you will have to reblue the gun after you are done.

lite surface rust - CLP Breakfree and very lite on the steel wool.

Light rust: Break Free CLP and a rag or fine steel wool.
Heavier rust: Mix a slurry of Mother's Mag Wheel Polish and BF CLP; apply w/ fine steel wool.

DON"T USE STEEL WOOL!

Use a fine bronze brush. You can find them in a shoe store. They are used for swayed shoes or coats. Also use some gun oil when brushing the rust area.

DONE!

0000 steel wool used carefully will not hurt either...

I'm going to try using the buffing wheels we use for SS in the shop and see if it takes it off.

CLR? pB blaster?

Sorry, my two cents are likely worthless

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0000 steel wool used carefully will not hurt either...

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This is true.

I don't know about the bronze brush as I've never used one. It'd be embarrassing if I told you how many years I've been using fine steel wool to remove surface rust. By itself, properly used FINE (e.g. 0000) steel wool will NOT remove the bluing. Having said that, I'll add one caveat: if the rust is heavy enough, it's possible that the rust itself will have irreversibly damaged the bluing; if that's the case, whatever one uses to remove the rust could be misinterpreted as having removing the bluing, but that's not the case. If you want to use the bronze brush, that's fine; but DON'T be afraid that properly used steel wool will remove the bluing.

Ha! I knew I was good for something.