Newcomer...you are spot on. Had this been truthful, mfg. could have been moved to any number of countries that don't have that supposed export license problem. Just an excuse to cover the fact that sales show there is no interest in a metal detector.
It’s not a problem to get it for western country but it is a problem to Arab courts or even china etc
The reason they didn’t sell last year wasn’t for the export permitissue but because they didn’t want to sell anymore the old model and were concentrating on building the very new model