As a Frenchman, it's also what we are taught about the French Revolution. One of the goals of the attack on la Bastille on July 14th 1789 was to seize the weapons there and march upon the rest of Paris and Versailles.
Powder and shot, more specifically. They’d seized cannons and small arms from the Hôtel des Invalides, but the under manned commander had transferred all his powder to the Bastille before the mob stormed his position.