There are some miss understanding about full auto weapons. You pay a transfer tax of $200 plus send in a Form that the local law enforcement official signs and a pair of finger print cards that the FBI will verify you are legal to own a weapon. It takes 6 months or so for the approval and transfer to take place. Full Automatic weapons were first registered Dec 19th, 1934 and no newly manufactured transferable full auto's can be sold to private individuals went into effect May 1986. This caps the number of transferables to 250,000 or so. Currently 38 states allow ownership.

Finishing my thought below, the world did not end and we will not incur more debt. They Republicans will of course get blamed but over time the anger dulls. When the fed's have to cut the waste eventually people will become neutral about the whole thing except for the liberals who will not get paid. By Summer 2014 the Senate and President will not be able to argue the end happened and then will be willing to deal. My hunch it will be sooner than that. All the house has to do is keep passing a budget and force the rest of government to follow. Best defense is a good offense

We have heard all the possible should do's but here is another. Stop playing and pass a budget in the House with the necessary spending changes. If the Senate refuses to debate and pass something then walk away. Let taxes go up in Jan 1 and don't raise the Debt Limit in January. This will force the President to spend the money that the Gov't brings in. This is roughly 2.5 Trillion and will fund the debt payments which is required by the 14th Amendment, Social Security which is mandated to be paid by law and the Military to some level. He will have to face the tough choices and will default to his political instincts which are sketchy at best. By the end of 2013 people would realize that the world did not end.