WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 told The Associated Press.
The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols formed part of display stands Patel presented to at least four senior New Zealand security officials in July. Patel, the most senior Trump administration official to visit the country so far, was in Wellington to open the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand.
Pistols are tightly restricted weapons under New Zealand law and possessing one requires an additional permit beyond a regular gun license. Law enforcement agencies didn’t specify whether the officials who met with Patel held such permits, but they couldn’t have legally kept the gifts if they didn’t.
It wasn’t clear what permissions Patel had sought to bring the weapons into the country. A spokesperson for Patel told the AP Tuesday that the FBI would not comment.
US FBI Director Kash Patel visits New Zealand, immediately provides local officials with 3d printed, potentially operable firearms…
… which is a crime, that could carry up to a 3 year prison/jail sentence in NZ…
… and would also potentially be somewhere between a misdemeanor and a felony depending on where you are in the US, as 3d printed firearms are generally without serial numbers and are thus ‘ghost guns’, which are often illegal if unregistered, if not outright banned, though this differs from state to state and city to city.
(Oh also, I guess he is so concerned about properly investigating the death of Charlie Kirk that he is uh, personally looking for leads in New Zealand, or something.)
Pistols are tightly restricted weapons under New Zealand law and possessing one requires an additional permit beyond a regular gun license.
Restricting pistols (i.e. the type of firearm most useful for crime and least useful for hunting or militia defense) more than long guns makes a ton of sense, and it’s a shame the US doesn’t do it that way too.
Also a bit harder to stuff a rifle in your pants
Because he’s a fucking moron.
The director of the FBI gives gifts to foreign officials… Which are 3D printed? No money for real gifts? xD
This is a total dark pattern. The objective is to vilify 3D printing, and have the governments regulate sales of printing equipements, etc.
…and so the arrested him on the spot. Right?
I swear to fuck they’re using some kind of unhinged sentence generator to make all the headlines these days
It’s just AI
unhinged sentence generator
AI
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Send that Worm-tongue back to from where he came, good people of New Zealand.
Better yet, into the fires of Mt. Doom.
So you’re saying that’s not where he’s from originally?
Hah, my Tolkien lore may not be quite up to snuff but uh…
… would that even matter?
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FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols
US FBI Director Kash Patel visits New Zealand, immediately provides local officials with 3d printed, potentially operable firearms…
Why do you change the narrative of the article you linked?
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I tried to demark a clear difference between the quoted text of the article, and my own editorializing, not in a quote block.
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If you read the actual article, it does actually describe that the reason why these 3d printed weapons were destroyed by the NZ police was that they were assessed as ‘potentially operable firearms’.
From the article:
Inoperable weapons are treated as though they’re operable in New Zealand if modifications could make them workable again. The pistols were judged by gun regulators to be potentially operable and were destroyed, New Zealand’s Police Commissioner Richard Chambers told AP in a statement Tuesday.
I did not change the narrative, I simply read more of the article than the initial subset I presented in a quote block.
Please actually read the whole article, not just the preview sampler.
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