While America struggles with its own silly anti-gun policies and laws, there are other parts of the world, like New Zealand, for instance, where the anti-gun ignorance is thicker than a bowl of cold oatmeal.

According to the New York Post, FBI Director Kash Patel had gifted New Zealand’s police commissioner and two senior intelligence officials a set of replica, 3D-printed pistols, where Patel took part in a ceremony to mark the opening of the FBI’s first standalone office in the South Pacific island nation."

But New Zealand is so ridiculously anti-firearm that it was decided recently by officials to destroy the replica firearms, which, as many pointed out, makes about as much sense as a screen door on a submarine.

New Zealand’s Police Commissioner Richard Chambers told the Associated Press earlier this week that he ordered the replica, non-firing firearms to be seized and properly destroyed.

What's going on?

"To ensure compliance with firearms laws, I instructed Police to retain and destroy them," the police commissioner told the outlet.

Authorities determined that the inoperable replicas, a nice gift and respectful gesture on Director Patel's part, could possibly be modified to become working firearms.

The Post noted:

Under New Zealand’s strict firearms laws, possessing a pistol requires an additional permit on top of a gun license. It’s unclear if the officials that met with Patel held such permits.

Inoperable firearms are also treated as operable if modifications could make them functionable, which authorities determined was the case with the 3D-printed guns gifted by Patel.

The report noted that three New Zealand officials, including "New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) Director-General Andrew Hampton, Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) Director-General Andrew Clark," and Commissioner Richard Chambers were forced to turn in their gifts from Patel.

Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns that are illegal under local laws https://t.co/8A3b0b8TPR pic.twitter.com/MWWFbRnJ8t

— New York Post (@nypost) September 30, 2025

FBI Integrity Project President James Davidson, who's not exactly a fan of Patel, admitted that the seizure of the replica firearms was an "overreaction."

Social media weighs in

Users across social media commented on the questionable actions of New Zealand authorities.

"Sounds like they were plastic display legs shaped like guns. Only idiots would construe this as somehow dangerous," one X user wrote.

Another X user wrote, "If the problem is that the weapons could be made operational, the solution is simple. Pour epoxy into the barrel and they can never be used. Confiscating them was more of a political statement."

What a total embarrassment, but it's New Zealand, so it's not a major surprise.