FBI boss Kash Patel gifted New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws [View all]
Source: CNN World/AP
Updated Sep 30, 2025, 4:10 AM ET
PUBLISHED Sep 30, 2025, 3:35 AM ET
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 three 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.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/world/fbi-kash-patel-gave-new-zealand-officials-3d-printed-guns-intl-hnk
Heard this on the radio this morning before checking in on DU! Keystone Kash does it again!
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