Re “Judge upholds Mass. assault weapons ban’’ (Page One, April 7): Regarding the comments of Dave Workman, senior editor of thegunmag.com, on the Second Amendment — “If the citizen militia was ever called up, [the AR-15] is probably the gun they would be expected to show up with’’ — and his further commentary on things that didn’t exist when the First Amendment was written, I’d just add that when the Second Amendment was written, we didn’t have a standing army or the National Guard. So, under what circumstances, exactly, and by whom (Alex Jones, perhaps?), does Workman expect the “citizen militia’’ to be “called up’’? Just wondering.

David Meyers

Amesbury