Senator Feinstein is correct, both morally and constitutionally. Words cannot and should not override the rights of Americans to their lives.

"I don't really think the idea that you can ban them or reduce the magazine will really pass constitutional muster," Malcolm said. "If your standard is common use, these are all in common use for lawful purposes."  (click here)

This idea that 'common use' of an assault weapon is nonsense. It is the same cultural oppression that surrounded Roe v. Wade. Somehow, the reason women could not possibly have rights to abortion was because the legislation was 'constructed strictly' to survive a constitutional challenge. What the Supreme Court stated was regardless of the strict construction of the legislation wording women were dying when seeking an abortion and that was not a reasonable law. 

The same it true with the NRA's pride and joy, the high cost assault weapons that is at the heart of death and destruction in local violence throughout the world. It is not reasonable to uphold a law that provides COMMON USE of weapons that kill vast numbers of people that weren't engaged in defending themselves. Any law that upholds the sales of military style weapons in the USA is corrupt and unconstitutional.