{"id":2259239,"date":"2024-06-04T07:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-hunter-bidens-criminal-gun-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T08:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T12:00:20","slug":"heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-hunter-bidens-criminal-gun-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-hunter-bidens-criminal-gun-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover Key Details About Hunter Biden&#8217;s Legal Gun Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fheres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-hunter-bidens-criminal-gun-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2259239&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>### Hunter Biden&#8217;s Federal\u200b Gun Trial Updates:<\/p>\n<p>#### CBS News:<\/p>\n<p>-\u200c **Jury\u2064 Selection**: The jury for Hunter Biden&#8217;s gun trial in Delaware was seated by Judge Maryellen Noreika. The trial focuses on three felony charges linked to a gun possession while using narcotics. President Biden&#8217;s son pleads not\u2063 guilty. Opening statements are expected \u200cto begin on Tuesday. [Read more](https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hunter-bidens-federal-gun-trial-delaware\/)<\/p>\n<p>#### Wall Street Journal:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; **Trial Overview**: Hunter Biden&#8217;s federal criminal trial\u200c covers crack cocaine, gun charges, and alleged false \u200cstatements.\u200d The trial commenced with his appearance in court. The charges stem from a 2018 incident involving \u2064a firearm possession. [More details](https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/us-news\/law\/trial-of-a-presidents-son-crack-cocaine-a-colt-cobra-revolver-and-an-alleged-lie-02900b7f)<\/p>\n<p>#### NBC News:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; **Court Proceedings**: The jury selection for Hunter Biden&#8217;s gun trial is completed \u200bin Delaware. The trial \u2064involves alleged gun-related offenses tied to his narcotics use. President Biden&#8217;s son faces significant legal challenges amid political scrutiny. [Full story](https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/hunter-biden-trump-gun-trial-what-to-know-rcna154901)  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Jury selection for Hunter Biden\u2019s first federal criminal trial began Monday in Delaware. The Biden son is facing trial on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sco-weiss\/pr\/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-robert-hunter-biden-three-felonies-related-his\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three charges<\/a>: two counts of false statements and one count of unlawful firearm possession, all related to a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver he allegedly purchased and possessed in Delaware in October 2018. Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sco-weiss\/pr\/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-robert-hunter-biden-three-felonies-related-his\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">faces up to 25 years imprisonment<\/a> if convicted of these offenses. <\/p>\n<p>The case the prosecution intends to prove is relatively straightforward. Biden has struggled with addiction to various narcotics for years and was even discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/bidens-son-hunter-discharged-from-navy-reserve-after-failing-cocaine-test-1413499657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-lawmakers-push-back-on-secret-service-claim-it-cannot-find-out-who-owned-cocaine\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers dispute Secret Service's inability to identify cocaine owner.\">mandatory drug test<\/a> in June 2013<\/a>. In his 2021 book, <em>Beautiful Things<\/em>, he openly discussed the fact that during the period that is relevant in this case, \u201c[a]ll my energy revolved around smoking drugs and making arrangements to buy drugs \u2014 feeding the beast.\u201d Then, amid this addiction, Hunter Biden purchased a handgun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1941181590\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5023cd42bb501e91825d01dbc2ded674 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5023cd42bb501e91825d01dbc2ded674\"><\/div>\n<p>Every gun owner will be familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atf.gov\/firearms\/docs\/4473-part-1-firearms-transaction-record-over-counter-atf-form-53009\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ATF Form 4473<\/a>, a document that asks all prospective firearms purchasers a series of questions to ensure they are legally authorized to own a firearm before completing a sale. One of these questions asks whether the purchaser is \u201can unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The prosecution will attempt to prove that Biden answered \u201cno\u201d to this question on his Form 4473 when the truthful answer should have been \u201cyes,\u201d and he therefore obtained a gun that he was not legally authorized to possess. In other words, Hunter Biden is not being prosecuted for being an addict; he is being prosecuted for lying about his addiction to unlawfully obtain a firearm and then possessing that firearm as an unlawful user of illegal drugs.<\/p>\n<p>For years, it appeared as if Hunter Biden would avoid accountability for his conduct entirely. After significant public pressure, however, a plea agreement was reached between Biden and the government that would allow him to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses \u2014 despite allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.907806\/gov.uscourts.cacd.907806.1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">failing to pay over $1.4 million<\/a> in taxes by understating his income and inflating his expenses, offenses that themselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/sco-weiss\/pr\/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-robert-hunter-biden-three-felony-tax-offenses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">carry a maximum of 17 years in prison<\/a> \u2014 and avoid responsibility almost entirely for his gun offenses by entering into a deferred prosecution agreement. Such agreements are almost entirely unheard of for firearms offenses. <\/p>\n<p>To make the deal even sweeter for Biden, the agreement did not even require him to cooperate with the government, which is often a requirement with plea agreements, particularly in cases where extreme leniency is being offered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9e826cd7189e39fd26154e3793baa00a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-9e826cd7189e39fd26154e3793baa00a\"><\/div>\n<p>But then something happened in the spring of 2023 that threw a wrench into the deal being worked out between Biden and the government and changed the landscape. Two IRS whistleblowers came forward alleging political interference in their investigation of Hunter Biden\u2019s taxes by officials in the Department of Justice who repeatedly limited the scope of the investigation. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/19\/us\/politics\/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times investigation<\/a> revealed that the U.S. attorney\u2019s posture on whether to require Hunter Biden to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses as a condition of any deal changed shortly after the IRS whistleblowers came forward. <\/p>\n<p>Then Biden\u2019s team demanded that the plea deal include immunity for \u201cany other federal crimes\u201d he may have committed, even beyond the gun and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-prosecutors-warp-up-fourth-year-of-hunter-biden-investigation\/\" title=\"Federal Prosecutors Resolve Fourth Year of Hunter Biden Investigative\">tax-related matters<\/a> that were the subject of this investigation. Because this broad immunity request went farther than the prosecution was willing to go, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-deal-falls-apart\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's plea deal collapses.\">plea deal fell<\/a> apart and was ultimately rejected by the federal judge.<\/p>\n<p>The case has also raised interesting questions about the scope of the Second Amendment after Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers argued that the federal law under which he was charged infringes upon his constitutional right to own a firearm. Relying on the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s 2022 decision in <em>New York State Rifle &#038; Pistol Association v. Bruen<\/em>, Biden\u2019s attorneys argued that the charges should be dismissed because there is no \u201chistorical tradition\u201d in the United States of prohibiting users of illicit substances from obtaining firearms simply upon the basis of their addiction (as opposed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-every-gop-gov-signs-letter-to-biden-demanding-end-to-immigration-crisis\/\" title=\"Nearly Every GOP Gov Signs Letter To Biden Demanding End To Immigration Crisis\">prior criminal conviction<\/a> for drug charges, for example). <\/p>\n<p>Federal courts are divided on the constitutionality of this law, and while the argument was not successful in preventing Biden\u2019s case from moving forward to trial, it could still be relevant in an appeal. If Biden\u2019s argument succeeds, that would effectively expand Second Amendment rights to a class of people whose right to own a firearm is not currently protected under federal law.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a32769b420cafca73ef398b43d9a6db6 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-a32769b420cafca73ef398b43d9a6db6\"><\/div>\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s legal troubles will not end with the conclusion of his Delaware trial. His indictment for failure to pay taxes from 2016 through 2019 is pending. And a congressional investigation into Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business deals and lobbying is also ongoing. Of course, his legal troubles may all go away after the November election, when, if reelected, President Biden would have the ability to pardon him, likely without serious political ramifications. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-704cf8e2423c7d90104868a9bdc6fcfc fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-704cf8e2423c7d90104868a9bdc6fcfc\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden&#8217;s federal criminal trial started with jury selection in Delaware. He&#8217;s charged with two false statement counts and one unlawful firearm possession count for a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver he allegedly bought in Delaware in October 2018. Biden is in the legal spotlight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3190,"featured_media":2259240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-6.37.35%E2%80%AFAM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-04-at-6.37.35%E2%80%AFAM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}