No, if they slap a label on it, it isn't "Don't Use It", it is "Don't even think about exporting this without permission.". It may have been relaxed, but regular IR cameras that we can buy and use here everyday in the US may land you in jail for selling them in eBay and shipping them to a customer in China or Iran. But we can buy, sell, and use them freely.

To say that's a gross oversimplification is putting it mildly.

Of course it is! It's not an essay on the details of the massive security bureaucracy surrounding military-use goods that provide the United States with a critical military or intelligence advantage.

It's merely a 2-sentence comment to slightly improve the previous oversimplification by indicating the ITAR focus is on exporting, not domestic use — it's even in the name: "International Traffic in Arms Regulations".

or even to Canada