I'm with you. What is their statistic based on? Gun Sales? Dating back how far? I have family that has weapons passed down across 3 generations. Model 1870 Winchesters, M1 Garand, 1906 Entfield (?), etc. Most of them shoot just fine. I don't expect my relatives admit to having these firearms if surveyed. They would only mention the ones they purchased and keep.
I don't have many but own more than I talk about or would offer if asked. I doubt I am much different from most other gun owners.
Yep, and that 200 million stat was 1994, right when Clinton took office and the USSR/East bloc began selling it’s inventory in earnest. A NICS check isn’t going to tell you how many old cheap Enfields, Mausers, SKS’s or Suomi’s one is buying. No one’s telling me that the number of guns sold since then is only 70-80M with all that’s been dumped on the market the last 20 years.