{"id":51783,"date":"2025-09-30T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51783\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T09:34:07","slug":"fbi-director-gifted-nz-police-commissioner-a-3d-printed-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/51783\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI director gifted NZ Police Commissioner a 3D-printed gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ<\/p>\n<p>30 Sep, 2025 08:34 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">FBI director Kash Patel gifted New Zealand&#8217;s Police Commissioner a 3D\u2011printed gun in July. Photo \/ US Embassy<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Police Commissioner was one of three people to be gifted 3D-printed guns from the director of the FBI. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The guns were later destroyed because they could have been made operable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Richard Chambers said he received a \u201cchallenge coin\u201d display stand, featuring an inoperable plastic replica pistol,<br \/>\n         from Kash Patel in July.\n        <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Police Commissioner Richard Chambers sought advice from the Firearms Safety Authority after receiving a gift from the director of the FBI. Photo \/ Mike Scott \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Police Commissioner Richard Chambers sought advice from the Firearms Safety Authority after receiving a gift from the director of the FBI. Photo \/ Mike Scott <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RNZ 30 Sep, 2025 08:34 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44551,14903,3936,3566,39194,3606,111,43,139,69,675],"class_list":["post-51783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-3dprinted","tag-commissioner","tag-director","tag-fbi","tag-gifted","tag-gun","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}