{ GIFTS FOR POLICE, SPY BOSSES } FBI's Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D printed guns illegal to possess under local laws

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies said.

- Associated Press

Kash Patel inaugurates the FBI office in New Zealand in July.

(AP)

The 3D-printed replica pistols formed part of display stands Patel presented to at least three senior New Zealand security officials in July. Patel was in Wellington to open FBI's first standalone office in New Zealand.