Kash Patel allegedly gave New Zealand officials guns illegal to possess under local laws

New Zealand destroyed pistols the FBI director gifted to security chiefs after finding the guns potentially operable

On a visit to New Zealand, 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 the FBI director 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.