This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Thursday, June 13, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The President's son, Hunter Biden, has been convicted on charges related to lying about drug use on a federal form in order

to get a gun and being high on drugs while possessing a gun.

But there are serious issues here both for the notion of a two-tier justice system

and the idea that your Second Amendment rights may be subject to the whims of drug

warriors like, well like Joe Biden.

Cato's Clark Neely discusses the trial and what comes next.

Hunter Biden, the son of the President of the United States,

has been convicted on multiple charges, but they all relate to his

misrepresentation. It was convicted for essentially lying on a federal form in order to secure a gun

permit to get a gun and then I believe possessing a gun while high on drugs.

And this is an interesting

juxtaposition of where we have what is considered to be a right

built into the Bill of Rights in our Constitution and draconian drug laws

effectively nullifying that right. Yeah, so under Biden by his own proclamation in his memoir

was a hardcore crack cocaine addict smoking crack every 15 or 20 minutes at this time when he then went to purchase a handgun at a Delaware gun store.

Of course you have to fill out paperwork to do that.

And what he ended up being charged with in the case

that recently produced a guilty verdict

was lying to the federal firearms licensee who sold him the gun, lying on one of the

forms that he had to fill out and then also being in possession of and purchasing a firearm notwithstanding the fact that

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