I dont know just putting it out there.......

GUN CONFISCATION STARTED THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
or History for Dummies

The War Begins British troops, sent to confiscate American arms and supplies, were resisted by Massachusetts militiamen at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. This broadside printed at Salem, Massachusetts, a few days later dramatically displays the coffins of the forty Americans killed. The British were reported to have suffered 65 dead, 180 wounded, and 27 missing.
http://www.rjohara.net/gen/wars/revolution.html

Massachusetts Colony was a hotbed of sedition in the spring of 1775. Preparations for conflict with the Royal authority had been underway throughout the winter with the production of arms and munitions, the training of militia (including the minutemen), and the organization of defenses. In April, General Thomas Gage, military governor of Massachusetts decided to counter these moves by sending a force out of Boston to confiscate weapons stored in the village of Concord and capture patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock reported to be staying in the village of Lexington. ... http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/lexington.htm

The War Begins -- British troops, sent to confiscate American arms and supplies, were resisted by Massachusetts militiamen at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. ... http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/brit-2.html

"The 2A never has meant 'Jack-spit' about bird hunting or target shooting. Such leftist babble was disingenuous, duplicitous and an outrage to defend the indefensible. The fact is the 2A was specifically intended to provide American citizens with the tools necessary to rise up and overthrow an abusive government. It was written by men who had just done that very thing.

The first 3 battles of the American Revolution were not about taxation, or representation, or even the list of grievances delineated in the Declaration of Independence ... the first 3 battles of the War for Independence were over gun control. [read: Lexington 1775] When Captain Parker faced off the British on the Green in Lexington it was to prevent the British from confiscating "power and ball".

It was again Thomas Jefferson who said, "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themsleves against tyranny in government."

AN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT by Geoff Metcalf, 12/24/04

OH BY THE WAY:

DOJ Concludes 2nd Amend. Secures Individual Right:
Conclusion For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and to bear arms. Current case law leaves open and unsettled the question of whose right is secured by the Amendment. Although we do not address the scope of the right, our examination of the original meaning of the Amendment provides extensive reasons to conclude that the Second Amendment secures an individual right, and no persuasive basis for either the collective-right or quasi-collective-right views. The text of the Amendment's operative clause, setting out a "right of the people to keep and bear Arms," is clear and is reinforced by the Constitution's structure.

The Amendment's prefatory clause, properly understood, is fully consistent with this interpretation. The broader history of the Anglo-American right of individuals to have and use arms, from England's Revolution of 1688-1689 to the ratification of the Second Amendment a hundred years later, leads to the same conclusion. Finally, the first hundred years of interpretations of the Amendment, and especially the commentaries and case law in the pre-Civil War period closest to the Amendment's ratification, confirm what the text and history of the Second Amendment require.

Here is their conclusion and you can read the complete memo at: http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm

The wire service press release:
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=40899
http://deadbangguns.com/History.html