It’s about time.
More than two years after Hunter Biden lied on a federal form to purchase a handgun, a federal grand jury has indicted him for three felonies.
When Special Counsel David Weiss will refile income tax evasion charges or charge the boy wonder with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) is not known. But for now at least, it appears that the 53-year-old global business tycoon who knows nothing about business will plead guilty to three felonies.
Stories about Biden’s gunplay are legendary. In one case, he was caught on camera cavorting in the nude with a semiautomatic pistol.
The Indictment
The grand jury’s true bill opens by citing federal law and the requirement that a gun purchaser truthfully answer Question 11.e. on Form 4473, which is now Question 21.f.
It requires that the “prospective purchaser certify truthfully that he or she is not an unlawful user of, or addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance.” As well, the form requires the “actual buyer” to certify that his answers are “true, correct, and complete.”
And of course, the purchaser must acknowledge that he understands that answering “yes” to that question means he is “prohibited from purchasing or receiving a firearm,” and that “making any false oral or written statement … is a crime punishable as a felony.”
That’s what Hunter did on October 12, 2018, the indictment alleges:
[He] knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement, intended and likely to deceive [the gun store] with respect to a fact material to the lawfulness of the sale of the firearm … in that he provided a written statement on Form 4473 certifying he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance, when in fact, as he knew, that statement was false and fictitious.
Biden faces two counts of lying to buy the Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver.
The third count is a possession charge. Drug addicts aren’t allowed to buy, own, or possess firearms:
The defendant Robert Hunter Biden, knowing that he was an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance … did knowingly possess a firearm.
Biden could land 25 years in the slammer and pay $75,000 in fines, although he’s about as likely to see the inside of a federal prison cell as his father is to remember the day of the week.
The lad’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, said the charges are bogus because of a previous plea deal that a judge rejected.
Report: Secret Service Protected Him
Biden’s gun trouble began when he shot himself in the foot, as they say, by leaving the weapon in his pickup truck. But let’s forget the obvious question of why Hunter needs a pickup, or is even permitted to drive given his record of pretending he’s A.J. Foyt.
Then-wife Hallie found the snub-nosed piece, took it to a nearby store, wrapped it in a blanket, and tossed it in a trash bin.
Later, when she confessed that crime to Hunter, he ordered her to return and find it.
Lo and behold, it was gone. As Politico reported, Hallie reported the missing gun to the store. A couple days later, “an older man who regularly rummages through the grocery’s [sic] store’s trash to collect recyclable items” returned it.
Hunter tried to finger two Mexicans as having it.
Later, two Secret Service agents showed up at the store where Hunter bought the piece and asked for the transaction record, Politico reported. The owner refused because the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives controls those records. ATF showed up later for a look.
Funny thing, the Secret Service denied knowing anything about it.
“U.S. Secret Service records confirm that the agency did not provide protection to any member of the Biden family in 2018, and that the Secret Service had no involvement in this alleged incident,” the agency told Politico.
Not so, a source said:
One law enforcement official said … individual Secret Service agents at the agency’s offices in Wilmington, Del., and Philadelphia kept an informal hand in maintaining the former vice president’s security. The person cited an instance in 2019 when the Wilmington office of the Secret Service called the Delaware State Police to arrange security for a public appearance by Biden.
FARA Charge?
Again, just five days after he purchased the Colt Cobra, Biden permitted himself to be recorded when he was nude, and packing a semiautomatic pistol during a romp with a hooker.
“The trainwreck son of President Joe Biden allowed himself to be taped in a sickening and dangerous sexual game of role-play on October 17, 2018,” Radar Online reported.
That was yet another scandal the major media ignored to protect his old man. In any event, Weiss will apparently investigate Biden’s possibly violating FARA. It requires that individuals who represent foreign interests before Congress or the federal bureaucracy, and thereby seek to influence the government’s decisions, register with the U.S. Justice Department.
Biden’s many acts on behalf of foreigners, not least Ukrainians and Red Chinese, required him to register.
