About that mysterious memo obtained by KSTP, which was being sent to law enforcement and FFLs… except no FFL had seen it, and which I’ve been trying to get from them since December 4th: I finally got a definite reply from KSTP’s Beth McDonough, who broke the story.

The memo at last. Um…

Well, at least one page of it.

McDonough said that she only had one page.

Note that rather than “being sent to law enforcement agencies and gun shops with a federal firearms license,” it is an internal memo addressed to “All Special Agents in Charge.” That certainly explains why no FFL has seen it. Perhaps McDonough is a little vague on the difference between SAC and FFL.

Without the rest of the memo, including the signature block, I still don’t know where this came from. Is that “Assistant Director, Field Operations” in the ATF’s DC headquarters, is this from the Minnesota operations boss?

And it sure would be nice to see “these procedures,” so we’d have a clue about compliance (malicious though it might be).

Oddly enough, it is dated November 28, 2018, but speaks of the rule already being in effect, having been published in the Federal Register.

Not as of December 16, 2018.

According to this, the rule is in the “Final Rule Stage,” but not in “Completed Actions.”

When all is said and done, having the memo — at least the one page — doesn’t clarify much of anything.