The Biden administration is imposing new restrictions on firearms exports and increasing scrutiny on transactions to limit diversions of guns to drug cartels, criminal groups, gangs and others, the Commerce Department said on Friday.

“The days of exporting military-style weapons to civilians in unstable countries are over,” Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Reuters. "Under our new review process, it will be much harder to export these weapons to civilians in countries that pose national security risks.”