Now, enriched uranium is a whole different story.
As long as you don’t hurt anyone with it, or try to blackmail the US with it.
[https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/831]
The 7kg limit is apparently a ‘depleted’ (aka refined/filtered) thing - https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part040/p...
But commonly misquoted.
7kg is a pretty large quantity.
It can be up to 150lbs a year if extracted from drinking water (!!).