A Delaware jury has found Hunter Biden guilty on all three counts of lying on a federal gun form.
BREAKING: Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts pic.twitter.com/RxcyvBKiDn
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 11, 2024
Hunter Biden was charged last year with three felonies for lying about his drug use on a federal gun form. He was convicted of “making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer.”
Those who testified in the trial were Hallie Biden, Hunter Biden’s former partner and the widow of his late brother, Hunter’s daughter Naomi Biden, and Gordon Clevel, the firearms dealer who sold Hunter Biden the gun.
Anyone else would face up to 25 years in prison. Hunter Biden will likely face zero prison time.
AP News reported:
Hunter Biden has been convicted of all three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
Jurors found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application by saying he was not a drug user and illegally having the gun for 11 days.
He faces up to 25 years in prison when he is sentenced by Judge Maryellen Noreika, though first-time offenders do not get anywhere near the maximum, and it’s unclear whether she would give him time behind bars.
Hunter Biden guilty of felony gun charges, faces 25 years in prison https://t.co/6iKyrkdofz pic.twitter.com/5E9doxtUF5
— New York Post (@nypost) June 11, 2024
More from the New York Post:
Hunter Biden became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime Tuesday after a federal jury found him guilty of lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun.
The panel of six men and six women deliberated for three hours across two days before convicting the 54-year-old of making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed firearms dealer, and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of or addict to a controlled substance.
Prosecutors from special counsel David Weiss’ office had argued President Biden’s son knowingly fibbed on a gun application form that he did not use controlled substances before walking out of a Wilmington shop with a Colt Cobra .38-caliber revolver on Oct. 12, 2018.
In fact, Hunter Biden was hooked on crack cocaine at the time, a fact he acknowledged in his own 2021 memoir — which prosecutors used as evidence against him.
