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FBI Director Kash Patel presented senior New Zealand security officials with gifts of inoperable replica pistols during a recent visit, which were subsequently deemed illegal under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.
The plastic, 3D-printed pistols were part of display stands given to at least three high-ranking New Zealand police and intelligence chiefs in July.
Patel, the most senior official from the Trump administration to visit the country, was in the capital, Wellington, to inaugurate the FBI’s first dedicated office in New Zealand.
Under New Zealand legislation, pis
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