Thread: Wokester muppet

What the fuk is a challenge coin

It's a military thing - units would give their guys a token that only 'their guys' were supposed to have. It meant that when a guard challenged someone who was walking around the place being guarded, they could pull out their coin and be able to proceed.

It kind of became a collector, souvenir and party-favour thing, as the whole idea was never official as far as I am aware.

So was the gun imported illegally into Nz ?
Without the proper import permit? Mr Patel could be charged with smuggling contrebande :-)

I think the vibrating barrel scared them

Originally Posted by KeyMod

I dunno about being woke, seems damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If they’d kept them and they weren't deactivated to the same standard that we’d have to adhere to people would be jumping up and down about one rule for some.

Bearing in mind that they’d be B cat since they’re pistols too so the fact that they wouldn’t have a license for them is entirely reasonable rather than not meeting the fit and proper standard

Cripes. 100% bang on there KeyMod. Pretty safe to say the guy would have been absolutely ripped to shreds here if it was reported that he had kept it and it didn't meet FSA rules. So yeah, damned if he did, damned if he didn't (as demonstrated here). Good to see he "did the right thing on a difficult day". Made the morally right decision, despite the inevitable heat and the potential diplomatic fallout. Good on him.

Originally Posted by Bol Tackshin

I suspect they were ugly, tacky gifts, and they just needed a reason to destroy them without causing a diplomatic incident!

I'm with you,

rather than let the pro/anti argument fester in the media and the echo chambers of the 'net, just get rid of them.

And if a coke riddled member of the current US administration gave me something, I'd destroy it just to rid myself of the smell.

Any potential for a headline that reads along the lines of ‘Commissioner kept inappropriate item’ would be seen by the organisation right now as radio active.

The real crime though is that the gun which was gifted, didn’t even work. As head of the FBI, you would hope that sourcing something more fit for purpose would be 101.

The gift was about as tacky as giving him a pair of crocs. It deserved a one way trip down the shitter. Hardly likely to cause a diplomatic incident. For obvious reasons our browny points are sky high with the US at the moment.

Originally Posted by Tahr

The gift was about as tacky as giving him a pair of crocs. It deserved a one way trip down the shitter. Hardly likely to cause a diplomatic incident. For obvious reasons our browny points are sky high with the US at the moment.

Can you fill us in on those reasons?

Because they dont seem obvious from here.

This made international news. Saw it on TV in Singapore.
Won't comment on the comments being made.

Originally Posted by Friwi

So was the gun imported illegally into Nz ?
Without the proper import permit? Mr Patel could be charged with smuggling contrebande :-)

Dont know about that....Potentially the 3d printer in their new wellington office was used to make them....Or diplomatic pouch...There was no mention of where they were made and besides, importing a plastic replica or imitation ornament does not require any customs interest except to make sure its not a real one. There may have been GST on it if that was the case...

All it says in the article is that it could have been made to function....I have some steel plumbing, some scrap blocks of alluminium and a couple small motors and some bits of lumber All the raw materials that could be made into a firearm with the right skill set (that I personally do not have...) and I suspect the offense commmitted to do so would be the act of building a firearm...

Does this really warrant the debate it is getting?

From the report it was a non functioning replica pistol, whats actually wrong with that?

So basically they destroyed a toy gun wow

Originally Posted by norsk

Can you fill us in on those reasons?

Because they dont seem obvious from here.

PM'd you. Political.