Gun control and the American Revolution

This link takes to you a downloadable paper entitled "How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution." It's strange, but I just don't recall this subject being discussed when I took history in college. Apparently the author is not one of our left-wing historians.

Investors Business Daily:

The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another.
People are asking, "Is the government doing us more harm than good? Should we change what it does and the way it does it?"