Comment: If you read the Actual American History, first the British emptied out their Prisons and sent their Prisoners to the British Penal Colonies at Massachusetts, Virginia and Georgia at America.   Newly Convicted Criminals were Sentenced to "Transportation" to the British Penal Colonies, see well researched American Gods TV Episode  7 "A Prayer for Mad Sweeney", this matches Research I previously did.  So of Course the British did not want the Colonists at the Penal Colonies to have Firearms, Security  was provided by British Military that were previously disgraced and or previously imprisoned also.  During the American Revolution the First thing that British General Cornwallis and British General Clinton did was to seize the Armories of the American Colonists' Militias.  Lexington, Concord and many other Battles  were then fought by the American Colonists as Individuals owning firearms, while the American Founding Fathers argued for months about how to fund the First Continental Army.