A pro-gun group is suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Department of Justice over the Trump administration's decision to ban bump stocks.

Gun Owners of America on Wednesday announced that it, along with its foundation, are challenging the ban of the aftermarket devices, which enable semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly – at nearly the rate of an automatic weapon.

The lawsuit seeks an injunction to prevent the rule from going into effect.

"These dangerous regulations can go much farther than just bump stocks," Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, said in a press release. "The goal of the anti-gun left is, ultimately, not just banning bump stocks, but, rather, putting 'points on the board' toward its goal of banning civilian ownership of all firearms."

The lawsuit is filed "strategically" in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, part of the 6th Circuit, which the organization believes is pro-gun, according to the press release.

The devices garnered public attention after they were reportedly used in last year's mass shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and hundreds wounded.

The Trump administration announced earlier this month that it was issuing a final ban on the devices. The rule expands the definition of "machine gun" to include devices like bump stocks, subjecting bump stocks to existing restrictions. Machine guns are illegal to possess under most circumstances.

Gun owners will have 90 days after the rule is published in the Federal Register to destroy their bump stocks or turn them in to the ATF.