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Hunter Biden guilty of all charges in gun trial

Hunter Biden has been found guilty on all three charges in his federal gun trial, becoming the first son of a sitting US president to be criminally convicted.

Prosecutors said Biden, 54, lied about his drug use on a federal form when he bought a handgun in 2018.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c044xmnm574o
I confess I don't know much about it all, and welcome correction (!), but as I understand it, he wrote in his autobiography that he had attempted to get clean of drugs around 2018 / 2019, and failed. So, if he said he had no addictions on the form he filled out in 2018, he lied. The verdict to me seems logical, therefore. Thankfully he only owned the gun a very short period of time, and didn't cause any damage with it, which I suppose is why the law exists in the first place, to keep guns out of the hands of those potentially of unsound mind.
Original post by EVRoosevelt
I confess I don't know much about it all, and welcome correction (!), but as I understand it, he wrote in his autobiography that he had attempted to get clean of drugs around 2018 / 2019, and failed. So, if he said he had no addictions on the form he filled out in 2018, he lied. The verdict to me seems logical, therefore. Thankfully he only owned the gun a very short period of time, and didn't cause any damage with it, which I suppose is why the law exists in the first place, to keep guns out of the hands of those potentially of unsound mind.


Assuming that this information is true, it does help to put things into context.

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