Also, didn't Paul Revere warn, not that "The British are coming", but that "The Regulars are coming out", meaning the Regular Army of their own government? I think we need to keep emphasizing that the Founders were fighting their own government and were all subject to hanging if caught.
Another point I like to make involves how the Continentals were able to eject the occupying government troops from Boston. They used the cannon which they took by force from Fort Ticonderoga and transported to Boston. The Second Amendment should be sufficient to insure that we don't have to start the next revolution by stealing larger weapons from our adversary.
I was watching the show called "AMERICAN RIDE." Ride with America's history teacher, Stan Ellsworth.
I must have had a brain fart, because he talked about this very fact & that it took almost about either 6 months or one year almost to get the cannon from Fort Ticonderoga and transported to Boston. (Just this quote does not do service to how well Stan Ellsworth covered this event, for what it's worth.)