09-15-2023, 12:14 AM
Hunter Biden indicted on federal gun charges
President Biden's son was indicted for making false statements and unlawfully possessing a firearm
Brooke Singman By Brooke Singman , Jake Gibson Fox News
Published September 14, 2023 1:38pm EDT
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The first son faces multiple federal firearms charges.
Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal gun charges out of Special Counsel David Weiss' investigation.
Biden was charged with making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm; making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federal firearms licensed dealer; and one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
According to the indictment, "on or about October 12, 2018, in the District of Delaware, the defendant, Robert Hunter Biden, in connection with the acquisition of a firearm, that is, a Colt Cobra 38SPL Revolver with serial number RA 551363…knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement, intended and likely to deceive that dealer with respect to a fact material to the lawfulness of the sale of the firearm…in that the defendant, Robert Hunter Biden, 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."
Hunter Biden
President Biden's son Hunter Biden exits the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 26, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The indictment also states that "on or about October 12, 2018, through on or about October 23, 2018, in the District of Delaware, 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, that is, a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver with serial number RA 551363, said firearm having been shipped and transported in interstate commerce."
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These are the first charges Weiss has brought against the first son since being granted special counsel status.
"As expected, prosecutors filed charges today that they deemed were not warranted just six weeks ago following a five-year investigation into this case," Hunter Biden's attorney Abbe Lowell said Thursday in a written statement. "The evidence in this matter has not changed in the last six weeks, but the law has and so has MAGA Republicans’ improper and partisan interference in this process.
"Hunter Biden possessing an unloaded gun for 11 day [sic] was not a threat to public safety, but a prosecutor, with all the power imaginable, bending to political pressure presents a grave threat to our system of justice," Lowell continued. "We believe these charges are barred by the agreement the prosecutors made with Mr. Biden, the recent rulings by several federal courts that this statute is unconstitutional, and the facts that he did not violate that law, and we plan to demonstrate all of that in court."
Fox News first reported in 2021 that police had responded to an incident in 2018, when a gun owned by Hunter Biden was thrown into a trash can outside a market in Delaware.
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A source with knowledge of the Oct. 23, 2018, police report told Fox News that it indicated that Hallie Biden, who is the widow of President Biden's late son, Beau, and who was in a relationship with Hunter at the time, threw a gun owned by Hunter in a dumpster behind a market near a school.
Special Counsel David Weiss
U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David C. Weiss. (Fox News screenshot)
A firearm transaction report reviewed by Fox News indicated that Hunter Biden purchased a gun earlier that month.
On the firearm transaction report, Hunter Biden answered in the negative when asked if he was "an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance."
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Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.
The charges come after an original plea agreement collapsed in July. Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty in July to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge.
Hunter Biden was forced to plead not guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and one felony gun charge.
Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Weiss to serve as special counsel with jurisdiction over the Hunter Biden investigation and any other issues that have come up, or may come up, related to that probe.
The White House declined to comment.
Fox News' Mark Meredith contributed to this report.
Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.
You can bet we will not see charges on failure to disclose the income, pay taxes and FARA violations.
They need to indict the AG for dragging their feet on the tax evasion charges purposely to reach the statute of limitations
No American believes Hunter will face an aggressive prosecution.
I’m not interested in gun charges. That is NOT Corruption. I want to know if Joe knew, participated, or benefited from his son’s influence peddling. Starting with the $10 Million Burisma payment.
Of course the Big Guy benefited - as well others in the family including Hunter. Corruption gone wild.
You already know he did.
Yeah, right. Throw us a bone. That's the safe charge, because prosecuting it doesn't require anything remotely looking like tax records or bank accounts. We all know what the collateral damage of those charges would be.
pollywoggle
5 hours ago
Exactimundo. A minnow-sized deflection from the 50 foot megalodon circling beneath the fishing boat...
Agreed...nothing being done here is not without approval from the Oval Office.
Every shred of information here has been carefully scripted, rehearsed, focus grouped, and executed at the precise time.
Nothing here is happening by accident.
elaw888
5 hours ago
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outsiderperspective470
4 hours ago
You seriously believe that roughly half the American population have conspired to create inflation?
What are Republicans doing to fix that? Where is their legislation to actually help people?
The charges and determination to prosecute should be the same as all the Jan 6'ers who were prosecuted.
No two tier Justice.
Agreed. If Hunter Biden is found guilty and punished harshly, this will be a big step forward for gun control in the USA. In the past, lying on a 4473 resulting in illegal firearm possession usually ended up with no punishment, or just a slap on the wrist. If the government is actually going to sta...
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Hold him in solitary for two years.
It seems that they are kind of caught between a rock and a hard place. If they don't give him jail time, it shows they are not serious about their gun control "reform" efforts.
Question:
How will Democrats respond to an indictment based on actual evidence?
So the message is - paying taxes is optional and only required after being caught cheating, no consequences should be encountered.
Hopefully he will not be the only Biden indicted on federal charges. Lock up the whole family. You don’t need 22 LLCs when you have no legitimate product or service.
And the walls come tumbling down.
Even the liberal media are calling for Joe to step aside.
Before it is all said and down, Biden will not be the 2024 candidate.
Remember, Hunter was given an administrative discharge for drug usage, specifically cocaine. The discharge was never entered into the federal database, I wonder why wink wink, but does prove a history of abuse.
NYSTruth
6 hours ago
It’s about time. Let’s be fair with Justice and do the right thing. He is guilty and should be in jail. We arrest many people let’s arrest everyone that breaks a law.
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President Biden's son was indicted for making false statements and unlawfully possessing a firearm
Brooke Singman By Brooke Singman , Jake Gibson Fox News
Published September 14, 2023 1:38pm EDT
WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on the economy after Hunter indicted
The first son faces multiple federal firearms charges.
Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on federal gun charges out of Special Counsel David Weiss' investigation.
Biden was charged with making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm; making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federal firearms licensed dealer; and one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
According to the indictment, "on or about October 12, 2018, in the District of Delaware, the defendant, Robert Hunter Biden, in connection with the acquisition of a firearm, that is, a Colt Cobra 38SPL Revolver with serial number RA 551363…knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement, intended and likely to deceive that dealer with respect to a fact material to the lawfulness of the sale of the firearm…in that the defendant, Robert Hunter Biden, 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."
Hunter Biden
President Biden's son Hunter Biden exits the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 26, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The indictment also states that "on or about October 12, 2018, through on or about October 23, 2018, in the District of Delaware, 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, that is, a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver with serial number RA 551363, said firearm having been shipped and transported in interstate commerce."
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These are the first charges Weiss has brought against the first son since being granted special counsel status.
"As expected, prosecutors filed charges today that they deemed were not warranted just six weeks ago following a five-year investigation into this case," Hunter Biden's attorney Abbe Lowell said Thursday in a written statement. "The evidence in this matter has not changed in the last six weeks, but the law has and so has MAGA Republicans’ improper and partisan interference in this process.
"Hunter Biden possessing an unloaded gun for 11 day [sic] was not a threat to public safety, but a prosecutor, with all the power imaginable, bending to political pressure presents a grave threat to our system of justice," Lowell continued. "We believe these charges are barred by the agreement the prosecutors made with Mr. Biden, the recent rulings by several federal courts that this statute is unconstitutional, and the facts that he did not violate that law, and we plan to demonstrate all of that in court."
Fox News first reported in 2021 that police had responded to an incident in 2018, when a gun owned by Hunter Biden was thrown into a trash can outside a market in Delaware.
COMER SUBPOENAS MAYORKAS, SECRET SERVICE OVER TIP-OFF OF 2020 HUNTER BIDEN TAX PROBE INTERVIEW
A source with knowledge of the Oct. 23, 2018, police report told Fox News that it indicated that Hallie Biden, who is the widow of President Biden's late son, Beau, and who was in a relationship with Hunter at the time, threw a gun owned by Hunter in a dumpster behind a market near a school.
Special Counsel David Weiss
U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David C. Weiss. (Fox News screenshot)
A firearm transaction report reviewed by Fox News indicated that Hunter Biden purchased a gun earlier that month.
On the firearm transaction report, Hunter Biden answered in the negative when asked if he was "an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance."
CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.
The charges come after an original plea agreement collapsed in July. Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty in July to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge.
Hunter Biden was forced to plead not guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and one felony gun charge.
Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped Weiss to serve as special counsel with jurisdiction over the Hunter Biden investigation and any other issues that have come up, or may come up, related to that probe.
The White House declined to comment.
Fox News' Mark Meredith contributed to this report.
Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at Brooke.Singman@Fox.com or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.
You can bet we will not see charges on failure to disclose the income, pay taxes and FARA violations.
They need to indict the AG for dragging their feet on the tax evasion charges purposely to reach the statute of limitations
No American believes Hunter will face an aggressive prosecution.
I’m not interested in gun charges. That is NOT Corruption. I want to know if Joe knew, participated, or benefited from his son’s influence peddling. Starting with the $10 Million Burisma payment.
Of course the Big Guy benefited - as well others in the family including Hunter. Corruption gone wild.
You already know he did.
Yeah, right. Throw us a bone. That's the safe charge, because prosecuting it doesn't require anything remotely looking like tax records or bank accounts. We all know what the collateral damage of those charges would be.
pollywoggle
5 hours ago
Exactimundo. A minnow-sized deflection from the 50 foot megalodon circling beneath the fishing boat...
Agreed...nothing being done here is not without approval from the Oval Office.
Every shred of information here has been carefully scripted, rehearsed, focus grouped, and executed at the precise time.
Nothing here is happening by accident.
elaw888
5 hours ago
"In America right now today, almost half of Americans are a $400 unexpected expense away from complete upheaval..." - Kamala Harris
Inflation is here to stay and Democrats created it on purpose. Inflation makes the poor more desperate and dependent on government while it allows the government to bor...
outsiderperspective470
4 hours ago
You seriously believe that roughly half the American population have conspired to create inflation?
What are Republicans doing to fix that? Where is their legislation to actually help people?
The charges and determination to prosecute should be the same as all the Jan 6'ers who were prosecuted.
No two tier Justice.
Agreed. If Hunter Biden is found guilty and punished harshly, this will be a big step forward for gun control in the USA. In the past, lying on a 4473 resulting in illegal firearm possession usually ended up with no punishment, or just a slap on the wrist. If the government is actually going to sta...
See more
Hold him in solitary for two years.
It seems that they are kind of caught between a rock and a hard place. If they don't give him jail time, it shows they are not serious about their gun control "reform" efforts.
Question:
How will Democrats respond to an indictment based on actual evidence?
So the message is - paying taxes is optional and only required after being caught cheating, no consequences should be encountered.
Hopefully he will not be the only Biden indicted on federal charges. Lock up the whole family. You don’t need 22 LLCs when you have no legitimate product or service.
And the walls come tumbling down.
Even the liberal media are calling for Joe to step aside.
Before it is all said and down, Biden will not be the 2024 candidate.
Remember, Hunter was given an administrative discharge for drug usage, specifically cocaine. The discharge was never entered into the federal database, I wonder why wink wink, but does prove a history of abuse.
NYSTruth
6 hours ago
It’s about time. Let’s be fair with Justice and do the right thing. He is guilty and should be in jail. We arrest many people let’s arrest everyone that breaks a law.
Reply
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