Ed,
None of us can give you the "first hand evidence" that you seek wrt the BassPro incident.
I have "first hand evidence" of Ted's involvement since he stated the facts and was bragging (very proud of himself) at a Mansfield F&G BOD meeting (a few days after the BP incident occurred). There were ~10 of us present that evening, although I might be the only NES'r that was present. NOTE: I did NOT expose Ted about this initially . . . someone else that he bragged to posted it first on NES and then I confirmed that it was also told to me and ~8 others at a MF&G BOD meeting by Ted himself.
So the evidence I have is "first hand" to me, but verbal only . . . we didn't ask Ted to swear out a written statement
although he might have agreed to it that evening if we asked him to do so as he was beside himself in full "righteous glory".
Ted told me that he did it because he was afraid that BP would harm his business (he was #2 or #3 behind Four Seasons in gun sales in the state, according to what Ted had told me prior to this).
I will also tell you that he THREATENED ME with the following statement "The AG is considering prosecuting you for aiding and abetting a felony" because I was a Mod back then and I was deleting many posts by idiots asking "what's up with BP selling Glocks, etc." Ted and the AG's office were reading and probably copying those posts as fast as possible (unbeknownst to myself) just as I was deleting them as fast as possible.
For the record, the Glocks were/are on the EOPS List and thus I knew that the AG Regs were being ignored (which is a civil matter and not criminal). I do not carry the EOPS List around with me and if they were selling any guns that were not on that EOPS List, I was unaware of it the evening of their grand opening when all this crap went down.
The prices BP gets for their handguns are obscenely high, much higher (by $100-200) than Ted or Four Seasons sells them for on a daily basis and I told Ted that he was an idiot for ratting them out. I was sincerely hopeful that BP knew what they were doing and was about to challenge the AG Regs by doing this. Turns out that they folded like a 2-bit whore the following morning and attempted to retrieve all the Glocks they had sold after the AG threatened legal action. I was in the store that following morning and talking with a manager about it, so I got the story from their side (none of us knew about Ted's involvement at that time).
Further, I can tell you that Ted has been "out for my head" since that incident and has caused me trouble at Mansfield F&G. I have not stepped foot in his store since that BOD meeting.
Furthermore, it was Qmmo (someone who I consider a "trusted party") who told me that Ted had told him that Ted was responsible for the AG going after the out-of-state dealers who shipped ammo into MA. So, I don't know this as fact, but I do trust the source of the info. Ted and Qmmo used to do a lot of business together.
Each of us is free to associate or do business with anyone we wish to. I know where I stand on this and you have apparently made your decision. Others can read and decide for themselves.