Despite the president's move, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein doubled down on legislation banning the devices.
"If you want these devices off the street, call congressional Republicans and tell them to stop blocking our bill," Feinstein said in a statement Tuesday. She had introduced a bill to ban bump stocks as well as similar devices last year.
According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, more than six in 10 Americans fault Congress and the president for not doing enough to prevent mass shooting.
Trump's order came a week after a high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, where 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people with a rifle that he had purchased legally.
U.S. federal laws state that people must be at least 21 years old to buy a handgun from a licensed dealer, but they have to be only 18 to purchase a rifle or shotgun.
The Florida shooting, the second deadliest at a public school in U.S. history, has rekindled a drive for stricter firearms control.
Teenage survivors of the school shooting have called for rallies in Washington and across the country next month in support of tighter restrictions on access to guns.
"I am not going back to school until lawmakers and the president change this law," said Tyra Hemans, a 12th-grade student of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the shooting occurred.
"Three people I looked to for advice and courage are gone but never forgotten, and for them, I am going to our state capital to tell lawmakers we are tired and exhausted of stupid gun laws," Hemans said.
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