No, there never have been. You'd basically require a corporate, military, or government sponsor - or functionally establish yourself as a corporation specifically chartered for such a purpose - and there's never been a canonical method to do that. Plenty of non-canon directions; I have a mess of 'em in my own hard-drive somewhere, stacking up with my home-brewed fake SIN modeling that is (alas) well out of date.
However, 'bonded' and 'end-user certificate' isn't a matter of abstracts; they're very real legal terms in use today. Yes, Virginia, you can purchase a pallet-load of plastic explosives IRL - if you pass all the legal hurdles and licensing etc. to be a registered and bonded mining corporation, allowed to purchase and use plastic explosives for the purposes of blowing big holes in the ground. Or, of course, if you can fake that sort of licensing ... but that should, by its very nature, be a step or six above simple 'restricted gear' licensing.