Bungling FBI chief Kash Patel gifted security chiefs a pair of pistols during an official overseas visit—which then had to be confiscated and destroyed by police as they are illegal under local law.

The Trump-appointed FBI director had flown to New Zealand in late July to open the bureau’s first standalone office in the country—but promptly left his hosts with a diplomatic headache.

The pistols were meant as symbolic or decorative items, but New Zealand gun laws treat inoperable firearms as operable if it is possible to make them functional again.

Patel presented “challenge coin” display stands that included 3D-printed plastic pistols to Police Commissioner Richard Chambers and the directors of New Zealand’s spy agencies, AP reported.

Chambers confirmed he had ordered them to be “re

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