In my brief and somewhat cursory foray into these statutes, I found some of the same things that Clayton found in his more extensive research.
In addition, I recall that clergy were often exempted from militia musters (eg, Massachusetts), and I seem to recall that Quakers were sometimes exempted as well.
Also, as an indication of the breadth of the class of gun owners and users in these laws, indentured servants were sometimes required to participate in the militia, poor people were often required to buy guns and reimburse the town later, and indentured servants were sometimes required to be armed with clothes and a good gun on the date of their release from servitude (MD?).
Jim Lindgren
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