Isaac Davis’ Minuteman company was the epitome of “well regulated” and well equipped by him, a master gunsmith. I have no doubt that was on the minds when the Second amendment was written.
Imagine if General Washington had Capt. Davis available to help him organize and train the assembled militia at Cambridge. Instead, he had to wait for Von Steuben to accomplish the same. A fateful shot indeed.
Back in the day as a Boy Scout, we walked the Isaac Davis Trail on one such anniversary. Of course, we were more impressed with the Guardsman marching with us with his ma deuce.
Below is a link and an excerpt about the “Powder Alarm” that happened about 6 months prior to Concord & Lexington, and one of the things to set the stage.
https://www.davekopel.org/2A/LawRev/american-revolution-against-british-gun-control.html
Excerpt:
Before dawn on September 1, 1774, 260 of Gage’s Redcoats sailed up the Mystic River and seized hundreds of barrels of powder from the Charlestown powder house.
The “Powder Alarm,” as it became known, was a serious provocation. By the end of the day, 20,000 militiamen had mobilized and started marching towards Boston. In Connecticut and Western Massachusetts, rumors quickly spread that the Powder Alarm had actually involved fighting in the streets of Boston. More accurate reports reached the militia companies before that militia reached Boston, and so the war did not begin in September. The message, though, was unmistakable: If the British used violence to seize arms or powder, the Americans would treat that violent seizure as an act of war, and would fight. And that is exactly what happened several months later, on April 19, 1775.
Five days after the Powder Alarm, on September 6, the militia of the towns of Worcester County assembled on the Worcester Common. Backed by the formidable array, the Worcester Convention took over the reins of government, and ordered the resignations of all militia officers, who had received their commissions from the Royal Governor. The officers promptly resigned and then received new commissions from the Worcester Convention.
That same day, the people of Suffolk County (which includes Boston) assembled and adopted the Suffolk Resolves. The 19-point Resolves complained about the Powder Alarm, and then took control of the local militia away from the Royal Governor (by replacing the Governor’s appointed officers with officers elected by the militia) and resolved to engage in group practice with arms at least weekly.
The First Continental Congress, which had just assembled in Philadelphia, unanimously endorsed the Suffolk Resolves and urged all the other colonies to send supplies to help the Bostonians.