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BalpeenHammer ( BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz )  to NZ Politics@lemmy.nz · 1 year ago

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws

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FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws

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BalpeenHammer ( BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz )  to NZ Politics@lemmy.nz · 1 year ago
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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.
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  • FreedomAdvocate ( FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ) 
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    Giant overreaction given all we know about 3d printed guns and that they were made specifically to be inoperable and were part of a display, but that’s what we’ve come to expect from governments around the world unfortunately.

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      Inoperable weapons are treated as though they’re operable in New Zealand if modifications could make them workable again. The pistols were judged by gun regulators to be potentially operable and were destroyed, New Zealand’s Police Commissioner Richard Chambers told AP in a statement Tuesday.

      What we don’t know is how inoperable they were.

      They could have been made as a monolithic display piece. But wouldn’t surprise me if they were fully working “ghost guns” with a few parts missing.

    • BalpeenHammer ( BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz ) OP
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      It’s a kind of a kink. Ammosexualism is a thing.

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    The real WTF is why that PoS was even visiting NZ.

  • passwordforgetter ( passwordforgetter@lemmy.nz ) BannedBanned
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    Based.

    • BalpeenHammer ( BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz ) OP
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      He is an ammosexual.

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