President Joe Biden’s son Hunter may have committed a felony offense by reportedly stating he does not use or is addicted to drugs on a background check for a firearm.
“Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” a background check asked of the younger Biden. He reportedly answered, “No,” Politico reported Thursday.
He had filled out the Firearms Transaction Record to purchase a .38 revolver on Oct. 12, 2018.
“Lying on the form is a felony, though prosecutions for it are exceedingly rare,” the outlet noted.
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Biden’s struggle with drug addiction has long been documented, with him being discharged from the Navy Reserve in 2014 for failing a drug test.
Biden said in a statement at the time that it was “the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy’s decision. With the love and support of my family, I’m moving forward.”
The president’s son is also slated to release a memoir on his drug addiction next month.
The revelation of the background check comes amid a Politico report detailing that Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law Hallie, who had a romantic relationship with Hunter after his brother Beau Biden died, had thrown the .38 revolver in a trash can outside of a grocery store in 2018.
Hunter Biden told her to retrieve the gun when he learned of what she had done. She returned to the trash can, but it was already gone, and police were subsequently alerted.
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When Biden and his sister-in-law were questioned by police, the Secret Service allegedly attempted to retrieve the gun paperwork from a Delaware gun shop. The shop owner reportedly refused, “suspecting that the Secret Service officers wanted to hide Hunter’s ownership of the missing gun in case it were to be involved in a crime.”
The Secret Service, however, told the Washington Examiner that it had “no involvement in this incident.”
