Actually, you don't recall right either.
The war started when the British marched on Concord and Lexington to confiscate the pesky guns that government tends to hate when in the hands of it's subjects, er, I mean citizens.
(b) In fact, the British soldiers were not "confiscating guns" but were trying to take the armory of an organized militia. The conflict had escalated quite far by that point and the reaasons for that escalation were self-rule and taxation.