It's not restricted. Sounds like your broker is not registered or does not make a market to trade in this security . You can open on account w/ Etrade in 5 minutes online and pay 30 bucks to wire funds into that account or wait a few days to register your bank acct. contemporaneously w/ your new Etrade acct. With my experience having 3 different brokers Etrade is the simplist GL.
good luck as well. hope you find a new broker to trade the pinks. as far as eegc goes, a pr monday as predicted will be thumbs up. AND a thumbs down, unfortunately if it does not happen-again. i vote for yes. tomorrow a.m. tells us the story.