[Quality_Not_Quantity]

So, at what point in Colonial America did these regulations promulgate? If before the Revolutionary War, I might view them as resulting from British fears of armed uprising.

[WhiskeyX]

“So, at what point in Colonial America did these regulations promulgate?”

These laws have origins going back into the ancient eras. The Anglo Saxon fyrd preceding the invasion and conquest of England by William the Conqueror of Normandy in 1066, the conquest of the Danelaw in Britain, the Romano-Celt resistance to the Anglo-Saxon invasions, the Celts, the Romans, the ancient Greek city states, and so on back in time.