Kash Patel gave his Australian counterpart a 3D replica gun as a gift. It was destroyed within months

The FBI director, Kash Patel, gave a 3D-printed pistol to then AFP commissioner Reece Kershaw during the US agency director’s trip to Australia and New Zealand last July. Photograph: Nathan Posner/Shutterstock

When the FBI director, Kash Patel, visited the Australian federal police last year, he came bearing a gift: a 3D-printed imitation pistol that then was “displayed proudly” in the commissioner’s office.

Yet within months, shortly after Krissy Barrett became the AFP’s new commissioner last October, she ordered it to be destroyed.