FBI Director Kash Patel gifted plastic 3D-printed pistols to three senior New Zealand law enforcement officials in July. The pistols, illegal under New Zealand law without specific permits, were surrendered and destroyed.
It’s not clear whether Patel had any legal permissions to bring the devices into New Zealand in the first place. The FBI did not respond to AP News for comment on that.
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The pistols were inoperable in their current state, but New Zealand law largely prohibits imitation pistols if they can be easily modded into functional weapons. New Zealand regulators decided that the devices Patel gifted to the officers could be modded into functional weapons.
