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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall
I'm not sure precisely what's going on here, but I'd really like to see someone from FIRST or Radio Shack clarify exactly what they see as a legal impediment. (And if it's some anti-terrorism law that's preventing them from letting it out of America, I'll be very, very disappointed with them, and with the idiots that authored a law restricting the export of toy car radios.)
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Actually it probably isn't a law, but more likely a regulation. Those are much harder to track down and many basically give the bureaucrat in charge discretion to do what he wants. At work we deal a lot with a category of information called ITAR, International Traffic in Arms Regulations. Due to ITAR we had to get an export license (six month process) to ship a machine over the border for repair, by the manufacturer. It didn't matter that the company in Canada already had all the information they needed to build as many machines as they wanted, or that we had to get an export license to tell them how we wanted the machine built in the first place. Rules are after all rules. They don't have to make sense.
Some clarification might help us understand, but then again it might just frustrate you with the stupidity of it. When you think about it, ITAR certainly might apply here. Those micro processors could probably make a pretty sophisticated remote control detonator. Not that you couldn't do the same with a few $$ at an electronic store.