The U.S. Justice Department officially bans bump stocks.

Those who possess the devices, which make it easier to more rapidly fire rounds from a semi-automatic firearm, now have 90 days to turn them in or destroy them.

Bump stocks gained national attention last year after a gunman in Las Vegas rigged his weapons to fire on a crowd attending a concert.

58 people died.

Federal officials had considered bump stocks a gun accessory and not subject to federal regulation, but President Trump called on the Justice Department to outlaw them soon after the tragedy.

NWTC firearm training instructor Erik Walters supports the ban on bump stocks.

"Do we really need it in our society? And clearly the President and I would think the majority of people understanding the situation would agree that's something that we could just do without," says Walters.

"It's blaming the item as opposed to blaming the individual and looking at the root of the problem that it comes to," counters Kyle Engels, manager of Gus's Guns in Suamico.

Engels opposes the ban and considers it an infringement on a person's property rights.

"I think it's a grave overreach in the federal government, not even pertaining to the 2nd Amendment, but mainly the 4th because it's property that was legal, they retroactively turn it into a machine gun making it illegal, and now you have to turn it in to the feds," says Engels.

"Those who are law abiding citizens will turn them in. There are those who laws do not apply to, and I'm certain there are those who are debating how to handle the situation when a mandate from the government is applied to us," adds Walters.

With the ban in place, though, Walters feels it will have little impact on overall gun safety in this country.

"An estimated 500,000 bump stocks in existence after production," says Walters, "and in the scheme of understanding the volume of firearms that are on the market today, or are owned, that is a very small percentage of them in the real world to begin with, so in the grand scheme of things it will change only a little."