FBI Director Kash Patel gave New Zealand’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 said.

According to Associated Press, the plastic 3D-printed replica pistols formed part of display stands Patel presented to at least three senior New Zealand security officials on July 31.

Three of New Zealand’s most powerful law enforcement figures had confirmed that they received the gifts. The three officers were New Zealand’s Police Commissioner Richard Chambers, Andrew Hampton, Director-General of the country’s human intelligence agency NZSIS, and Andrew Clark, Director-General of the technical intelligence agency GCSB.

The incident took place during Patel’s recent visit to Welli

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