[Plutarch]

You don't have to look far to find evidence of widespread gun ownership in Colonial America.

From David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride:

"Most towns expected individual militiamen to supply their own weapons, and acted to arm those who were unable to arm themselves. Newton's town meeting made special provision to arm its paupers at public expense.... Not many societies in the 18th Century would have dared to distribute weapons to their proletariat."

Paul Revere's Ride at Amazon (a great book!): (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195098315/qid=1026522082/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/102-4683113-6552106)

[Pharmboy]

You don't have to look far to find evidence of widespread gun ownership in Colonial America.

Agreed. But I particularly like this source because it gives numbers and it is from and original colonial diary. Irrefutable by today's lefty democrap gun grabbers.