I agree, there are probably more.
These figures not only include very spotty numbers (or non-existent ones) from the 100 or so years before 1968, but they also don’t include:
1) War trophies from the Spanish-American War through Korea (and even some in Vietnam, though the Feds were already tightening up things by then);
2) Guns smuggled in throughout our history;
3) Guns manufactured by individuals; and
4) 80% receivers - even now, you can buy an AR-15 paperweight for about $40-$50, and if you have a jig (maybe $75-$100, sold by the same people that sell you the paperweight - and good pretty much forever) and a drill press (under $200 at Harbor Freight, or free by using a friend’s). I suspect that there are several hundred thousand of these out there, mostly bought during the last 7 years or so, and their production and sales are continuing to rise.
Yeah, there are more than 400 million - and if the Russians and we thought that taking control of shitholeistan, err, excuse me, Afghanistan, was tough, then let the statists consider what 400 million+ guns in the hands of pretty well educated First Worlders could do. My advice to them, same as that of the Founders, is to leave us alone.
I think that there are 400 million that they can’t deny. I suspect this is just like 99% of statistics that are 100% made up on the spot 93% of the time.
I don’t trust any information what so ever that comes in any way shape or form through any government agency. I don’t have time to imagine every angle that they “might” be trying to take when playing “fun with numbers”.
Here is an example;
A very close friend of mine was a missionary to Brazil for 35 years. When the CDC and the World Health Organization needed to show how much good there “work” was doing they would wait until the time of year they knew certain diseases where suppressed and take surveys to show they had “conquered” these diseases knowing full well that it was not the season that said diseases were prevalent. Case in point was Dengue fever. They specifically checked number of cases when mosquito’s were not in season.
We know our politicians lie to us everyday. Why would anyone believe agency’s headed by politicians have any credibility at all.
I trust nothing what so ever the government reports, nothing!! Anyone that does is naive.
Just like the statistics about vaccines on the .gov site that disappeared. I am not taking a side on that here just pointing out they did pull the information down because it was not going along with their narrative.