American colonist were barley 12 years removed from french and Indian wars (1754-1763), but close enough to a new conflict to begin thinking about necessity for building a store for weapons.Those who served ion militas in that earlier war had furnished their own weapons.the guns would have been ounskets, frowling pieces or no weapons at all.They brought and carried their own provisions.Altough the muskets conflict.The matchlock musket was odoslete by 1775,but still retained by some families as a useful, but cumbersome to fire,weapon.