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Jilly_in_VA

(13,259 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:38 PM Sep 30

Keystone Kash Botches Overseas Visit by Gifting Illegal Guns

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 “retained and destroyed.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-fbi-director-keystone-kash-patel-botches-overseas-visit-by-handing-out-illegal-guns/

Remind me what this dumbass did before he was promoted beyond his capacity?

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Keystone Kash Botches Overseas Visit by Gifting Illegal Guns (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Sep 30 OP
He is such a Republican Champp Sep 30 #1
OK, riddle me this. ananda Sep 30 #2
I guess Ka$h was all out of olive branches. Conjuay Sep 30 #3
America handing out guns... Conjuay Sep 30 #4

Champp

(2,300 posts)
1. He is such a Republican
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:48 PM
Sep 30

Tragic

Guess its good he got out of the Las Vegas casinos for a few days.

Gotta look on the bright side.

ananda

(33,572 posts)
2. OK, riddle me this.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:50 PM
Sep 30

Do Trumpies really think that other countries are like us,
or want to be like us?

Are they that out of touch and stupid?

OK, I guess I answered my own questions.

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