I don't know if they are designed to shoot steel cased ammo or not, but it has not caused me an issue in any of my AR's. Maybe in another 10,000 rounds it will, I don't know.
Anyway, back to the original question, here is a decent video on cleaning and lube from NSSF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW4DQ5QlwrA