See, that's the thing...he called the BPS store, and after having no luck there he tried BPS corporate. In essence he got told to get lost.
If they wouldn't talk to him about it at all, then what's the guy supposed to do?
I have heard a few renditions of this story from some folks that have talked to Ted directly about it and from a BPS employee. BPS was not interested in the discussion with a local retailer. They were too big to talk to him.
That's not to say my approach is the only right one, but I do think people are being a little unfair to a local small business.
Although I understand where you're coming from on the small business angle, this could have played out very differently for ALL of us (Ted included) if he had played his cards correctly:
I present this scenario:
Common sense says that BPS did as much due dilligence as possible prior to opening by sifting through the extraordinarily complex and misleading MGLs, saw that most (if not all) Glock models are on the EOPS list (the only published list that BPS could have had access to) and said "as far as we can intelligently deduce, these guns are
legal to sell in this state" and had at it.
AND THEY WERE RIGHT. 100%
As most of us know, this logic applies to any handgun that is on the EOPS list.
Off-list guns are of course a different discussion entirely.
Given that the AG's extortion tactics are, well, just that; BPS would have had a gift-wrapped opportunity to dig into some VERY deep pockets and fight the good fight (and possibly win) given that there's no leg for the AG to stand on here, and she and her band of cronies know it. This has been true since the Harshbarger days.
So..... Ted calls BPS and says something to the effect of "Hey guys, just so you know, there's actually an issue you all don't know about (explains crazy AG regs BS in graphic detail), but this would be a banner opportunity to fight it, and I'm here to help."
I'm willing to bet he'd have gotten a MUCH warmer welcome from the BPS legal dept, especially if the AG had taken them to task without Ted's dime-dropping.
Obviously there's no guarantees here, but at least it would have given us as Mass gun owners another crack at trying to eliminate these utterly ridiculous "Consumer regulations".
To summarize:
If Ted could see past his own nose, he (and all other Mass dealers) might be seling brand new Glocks right now, instead of ending up with a bad reputation and stifling another opportunity for forward progress. Couple this with dime-dropping on ammo sales, and it's game over for me.
Thanks for reading.