I'd like some sources that show that guns were found in almost every home. That does not fit my memory but my memory is not a source.

"...Muskets that were for fighting and other guns for hunting..." can you clarify this part of your statement for me please.

Maybe so, I read it as there was a difference between the guns used in militia and those used for hunting, which im probably wasnt the case. Man, theres a really good quote from a revolutionary observer in Ma. that I read in somewhere (Ill try to dig it up), that spoke to the great variety of arms present during the initial gathering of troops around Boston, and something to the effect of "the older and more worn the gun, the more pride the owner seemed to take in it."