No, it wasn't the FCC. It was the customs service:

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/04/2316228.shtml

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of David VanHorn
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:38 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PICLIST] [EE]: Kits?


At 10:31 PM 7/3/01 -0300, Alexandre Domingos F. Souza wrote:
> >I don't think it was the FCC... it might have been customs or the IRS,
> >shutting them down for designing products intended for "surrepitous use"
or
> >something... I am, of course, referring to the Ramsey Electronics fiasco.
>
>         What happened to Ramsey?

It was the FCC.
They were selling bugging devices in kit form.
Granted they were the world's crappiest bugs, but that's what they were.
The FCC stepped in and said "no more".

They are doing enforcement these days.

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