{"id":15152,"date":"2025-10-01T05:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15152"},"modified":"2025-10-01T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:23:22","slug":"fbi-director-gifted-nz-police-and-intelligence-chiefs-3d-printed-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=15152","title":{"rendered":"FBI director gifted NZ police and intelligence chiefs 3D-printed guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police and intelligence chiefs were gifted 3D-printed guns from the director of the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>The guns were later destroyed because they could have been made operable.<\/p>\n<p>Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said he received a &#8216;challenge coin&#8217; display stand, featuring an inoperable plastic replica pistol, from Kash Patel during his visit in July.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-half photo-right four_col \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--kH5CPvi6--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_576\/v1757377752\/4K1CJZC_Image_15_jpg?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Police Commissioner Richard Chambers.\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">Police Commissioner Richard Chambers.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Mark Papalii \/ RNZ<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a statement, Chambers said he sought the advice of the Firearms Safety Authority &#8211; which determined modifications could have made the guns operable.<\/p>\n<p>He then instructed it to destroy the guns to ensure compliance with firearms laws.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Security Intelligence Service Director-General Andrew Hampton and Government Communications Security Bureau Director-General Andrew Clark were also gifted the inoperable 3D-printed replica pistols.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson said the gifts were handed to the police the following day and were also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police and intelligence chiefs were gifted 3D-printed guns from the director of the FBI. The guns were later destroyed because they could have been made operable. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said he received a &#8216;challenge coin&#8217; display stand, featuring an inoperable plastic replica pistol, from Kash Patel during his visit in July. Police Commissioner Richard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15157,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions\/15157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}