You know what’s a great thing to do when you’re visiting a foreign country in a diplomatic role as part of a joint effort to fight crime? Bring some illegal weapons.

At least that’s what FBI Director Kash Patel apparently believes .

When visiting New Zealand to open the FBI’s first office earlier this year, Patel brought “inoperable plastic 3D-printed replica” pistols and gave them to at least three high-level police, security, and intelligence officials.

A cartoon by Clay Bennett.

That would be a super weird thing to take to any country, to be honest. But bringing them to New Zealand is a special kind of stupid.

While inoperable, the pistols could be modified to be operable, which is illegal in New Zealand. In fact, even if someone has a regular gun license, they need an addition

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