[ahahs]

I worked at Mouser as a developer for a few years, the real reason is because our parts are used by terrorists, etc. to build weapons that kill people/bombs.

We created a service that blocks people from buying various parts using a ton of different complex business rules (one simple rule we had was we straight up didn't sell ANYTHING to the middle east for a while).

Startups were another business we didn't sell to simply because of the sheer amount of fake companies we got trying to work around our rules engine.

Alot of the rules for our service was mandated from the FBI. That was a fun call to reveive from them.

[SanjayMehta]

I figured as much that this was a combination of silly rules and corporate bureaucracy.

Although I'm intrigued why a 12 bit ADC would be of any use in an IED.

The people who build weapon systems have countries backing them and they have ways to source any thing.

[ahahs]

"The people who build weapon systems have countries backing them and they have ways to source any thing."

I think this is a bit short sited. Many parties are interested in building weapons that cause lots of harm. And not everyone who is interested in making weapons has countries backing them, in fact they likely have countries against them building said weapons. Hence the needed work around to try and source parts from Mouser.