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Hunter Biden, 54, became the first child of a sitting president to receive a felony conviction on Tuesday. A federal jury in Delaware found him guilty of three counts related to lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun.

Prosecutors Leo Wise and Derek Hines argued the President Biden’s son knowingly lied on a gun application form. Hunter bought a Colt Cobra .38-caliber revolver on Oct. 12, 2018 from a Wilmington gun shop.

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Felony Conviction

Hunter’s attorneys denied that he was using drugs at the time of the gun purchase. But there was ample evidence that throughout 2018 he was hooked on crack cocaine. 

The government used Hunter's own words from his 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things” along with the first son’s communications, and data taken from his now infamous laptop.

Witnesses testified that the gun was never locked-up. His ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, and his sister-in-law Hallie Biden who he dated after the death of his brother both testified. Hallie indicated that the gun was left unlocked and available when she dropped it in a grocery store dumpster.

The laptop which the FBI has had since early 2019 suggests a myriad of other crimes which have since passed the statute of limitations. There is also evidence of other alleged crimes that will apparently not be prosecuted.

After the verdict President Biden, 81, demanded punishment for people who leave guns unsecured. But he didn’t directly address the guilty verdict.

In his remarks at Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund's annual "Gun Sense University" conference on Tuesday he claimed he personally attended three “major crime scenes” where “the mother or father left open — left stuff out on the desk, left it out on the table and the kid came out and used it.”

There is no record that Biden was ever at a crime scene.

“It’s time we establish universal background checks — and by the way and require the safe storage of firearms. We should hold families responsible if they don’t provide those locks on those guns.”

Hunter faces up to 25 years behind bars. He will likely be sentenced in 3 to 4 months. A lighter sentence is more likely since he has no prior convictions. He is also set to be tried in Los Angeles on Sept. 5 for alleged tax fraud.