WELLINGTON, New Zealand — 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.

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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

The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols were presented during Patel's visit in July to open the FBI's first standalone office in New Zealand

The country's law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press about the gifts and why they were illegal to possess Tuesday

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