Was the first government gun confiscation attempt foiled by an unsung colonial heroine?

Then, on April 18, 1775, British General Thomas Gage sent 700 trained troops to Concord, Massachusetts. On the dawn of the 19th, 70 men — farmers, clerks, storekeepers — stood fast and faced the British advance guard at Lexington Green. History does not know who fired the first shot, what Ralph Waldo Emerson called ...the shot heard round the world. And what sin, what transgression did the British commit to bring on armed conflict? They had come for their guns. Their own government had come to disarm them. The first battles of the Revolutionary War were fought over...gun control. It is, I believe, the first and only revolution in history borne of a government's attempt to remove weapons from its citizenry. There is one nagging question, though: History has long asked how the colonists knew the British were coming. There was good intelligence that let us know they were on their way and what they were coming for, and there's a fair amount of evidence that the colonists were tipped off by a woman, none other than General Thomas Gage's New Jersey-born wife, Margaret Kemble Gage, who sympathized with the Colonial cause. But, did she really? We don't know. However, even Gage himself suspected her and packed her off to England to spare himself embarrassment...BackwoodsHome