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☆ Supreme Court Upholds Law Disarming Domestic Abusers
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Adam Liptak | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the government may disarm a Texas man subject to a domestic violence order, limiting the sweep of its earlier blockbuster decision that vastly expanded gun rights. That decision, issued in 2022, struck down a New York law that put strict limits on carrying guns outside the home. The new case, United States v. Rahimi, explored the scope of that new test. Only Justice Clarence Thomas, the author of the majority opinion in the 2022 decision, dissented. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that Second Amendment rights had limits.

Persons: Clarence Thomas, John G, Roberts Jr Locations: Texas, New York, United States

☆ Supreme Court upholds domestic violence gun restriction
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court before the start of oral arguments in the United States v. Rahimi second amendement case in Washington on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal law that prohibits people subjected to domestic violence restraining orders from having firearms, taking a step back from its recent endorsement of a broad right to possess a gun. The court on an 8-1 vote ruled in favor of the Biden administration, which was defending the law — one of several federal gun restrictions currently facing legal challenges. He argued that he cannot be prosecuted under the federal gun possession restriction in light of what the Supreme Court concluded. But the case before the justices concerns his separate prosecution by the Justice Department for violating the federal gun possession law.

Persons: Biden, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe Biden, Zackey, Rahimi's, Rahimi Organizations: U.S, Supreme, New York State, Justice Department, Circuit, Appeals Locations: United States, Washington, Texas, Arlington , Texas, New Orleans

☆ Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Supreme Court upheld a federal law Friday that bars guns for domestic abusers, rejecting an argument pressed by gun rights groups that the prohibition violated the Second Amendment. The 8-1 decision lands as the nation continues to grapple with gun violence and mass shootings. A roiling political debate over firearms has left Washington unable to pass new gun laws. The decision could help shore up similar federal gun regulations that have been challenged since the Supreme Court vastly expanded gun rights in 2022. Rahimi’s lawyers claimed that the Supreme Court’s blockbuster decision two years ago meant that the law on domestic violence orders could not be squared with the Constitution.

Persons: John Roberts, Roberts, ” Roberts, ”, Steve Vladeck, Clarence Thomas, “, ” Thomas, Zackey Rahimi, Thomas, Biden, Joe Biden’s, Hunter, ” Biden, Alito, Samuel Alito Organizations: CNN, University of Texas School of Law, New York, Government, Appeals, Supreme Locations: Washington, State, New, Texas, Bruen, New Orleans

That sent lower courts scurrying into historical analyses to figure out if modern gun laws had some connection to the 18th Century. Roberts’ opinion said that lower courts were misunderstanding what the majority had said in that ruling. But Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a member of the court’s liberal wing, suggested it was the high court’s fault for not providing clarity for lower courts to follow. One deals with a Pennsylvania man’s challenge to a federal law prohibiting felons, including those who are non-violent, from possessing firearms. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar presented that argument with an eye toward several other challenges pending to similar federal gun prohibitions that involve non-violent criminal activity.

Persons: John Roberts, Zackey Rahimi, ” Roberts, Donald Trump, Roberts, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, ” Barrett, ” Thomas ’, Bruen, Clarence Thomas, Thomas, Elie Honig, SCOTUS, Rahimi, ” Thomas, Hunter Biden, Hunter, Biden, Daniels, Steve Vladeck, ”, Elizabeth Prelogar Organizations: CNN, Supreme Court, New York, Trump, US, Appeals, Supreme, Circuit, University of Texas School of Law Locations: Texas, New, Bruen, Mississippi, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Illinois

☆ Tracking a Single Day at the National Domestic Violence Hotline
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +15 min

Tracking a Single Day at the National Domestic Violence Hotline They call from work, to avoid being overheard, or from home before someone returns. The legal battles have underscored the pervasiveness of domestic violence and the strains on existing support for survivors. To capture a snapshot of the experiences of domestic violence survivors, The New York Times observed some of the calls and messages the hotline received in one day. Congress approved creation of a national hotline dedicated to domestic violence in 1994, including it in the landmark Violence Against Women Act. Josie Slawik, who began working to support domestic violence survivors after she arrived at an El Paso shelter, was there when the hotline took its first call in 1996.

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☆ Supreme Court Ruling on Bump Stocks Could Open Door to More Lethal Weapons
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Jack Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bump stocks were banned by the Trump administration after that mass shooting. But when the Supreme Court last week struck down that ban, which had been a rare victory for gun-safety advocates in recent years, it had the potential to open the door not just to bump stocks. The devices are replacement triggers known as “forced-reset triggers” or “wide-open triggers” that allow shooters to fire more than 900 rounds in a minute with one continuous squeeze, federal officials say. In March 2022, four years after the ban on bump stocks was issued, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also imposed restrictions on some of these trigger devices. The agency said in a letter at the time that the devices effectively turned semiautomatic weapons into prohibited machine guns.

Persons: Trump, Biden’s Organizations: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives Locations: Las Vegas

☆ ‘Rust’ prosecutors intend to paint Alec Baldwin as repeatedly ‘reckless’ while handling firearm, court document shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Cindy Von Quednow | Josh Campbell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Baldwin previously stated to CNN that he did not pull the trigger on the weapon during the deadly incident. “I never took a gun and pointed at somebody and clicked the thing,” Baldwin said at the time. The special prosecution team also alleged Baldwin was “inattentive during the firearms training” conducted by on-set armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, claiming the actor was texting and video conferencing with family members rather than focusing on the safety briefing. In the filing, special prosecutors repeatedly insisted Baldwin exercised complete control over the set and crew during instances where alleged unsafe practices were identified on video. Cinematographer Hutchins was killed and director Joel Souza injured when a gun held by Baldwin fired a live round during a scene rehearsal on the set of the western.

Persons: Alec Baldwin, Halyna Hutchins, Baldwin, ” Baldwin, Hutchins, Luke Nikas, ”, Baldwin “, ” “, “, armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, Joel Souza Organizations: CNN —, ” Prosecutors, CNN Locations: Santa Fe County’s

☆ Senate GOP blocks effort by Democrats to pass bump stock ban after Supreme Court ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Clare Foran | Ted | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked an attempt by Democrats to pass a bill to ban bump stocks in the wake of a recent Supreme Court ruling. The bill would enact a federal ban on the sale of bump stock devices. Bump stocks allow a shooter to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire at a rate of hundreds of rounds a minute. The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a federal ban on bump stocks approved by former President Donald Trump, the latest opinion from the conservative court rolling back firearm regulations. While some Republicans support a ban on bump stocks, the issue has divided GOP senators in the aftermath of the high court ruling.

Persons: Donald Trump, Democratic Sen, Martin Heinrich of, Republican Sen, Pete Ricketts, ”, there’s, ” Heinrich, Chuck Schumer, ” Schumer, Ricketts, “ It’s, “, Sen, Lindsey Graham of, John Cornyn of, “ I’ve, I’d, ” Sen, Shelley Moore Capito, Chris Murphy, Connecticut, Murphy Organizations: CNN, Democratic, Republican, Nebraska, GOP, Republicans Locations: Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas, West Virginia

☆ Opinion | The Governor’s Race You Cannot Ignore
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That’s how Mark Robinson’s aides characterize any attention to his diatribes against Jewish people, gay people, women. They want voters in North Carolina, where he is the Republican nominee for governor, to see him as just another conservative whose straight talk and religiousness come under predictable fire from the ambassadors of wokeness. And Robinson’s fate will be an especially revealing referendum on just how much, in the America of 2024, tribalism trumps common sense and common decency and voters tune out the truth. The governor’s race pits Robinson, who’d be North Carolina’s first Black governor, against Josh Stein, the Democrat, who’d be its first Jewish one. And they’re the very foundation of his improbable political career: He was elected lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2020 almost solely on the basis of a single speech in opposition to sensible restrictions on firearms.

Persons: Mark Robinson’s, MAGA, Robinson, who’d, Josh Stein, it’s, Stein, ”, Paul Pelosi, Michelle Obama Organizations: Republican, wokeness, Democrat Locations: North Carolina, America

☆ The Gun Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the 2nd Amendment Battle
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Mike Mcintire | Jodi Kantor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

That finding has been deployed by gun rights activists to notch legal victories with far-reaching consequences. He has been cited in a landmark Supreme Court case that invalidated many restrictions on guns, and in scores of lawsuits around the country to overturn limits on assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and the carrying of firearms. His findings were also offered in another Supreme Court case this term, with a decision expected this month. Dr. English seems at first glance to be an impartial researcher interested in data-driven insights. He has said his “scholarly arc” focuses on good public policy, and his lack of apparent ties to the gun lobby has lent credibility to his work.

Persons: William English Organizations: Georgetown University, Dr

☆ Opinion | The Supreme Court Dials Down the Chaos on Guns
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Jesse Wegman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Violent people who pose a clear and immediate threat to the physical safety of others should not be allowed to possess firearms. That seems like a statement any reasonable person living in a self-governing society can readily agree with. And yet on Friday morning, it took the United States Supreme Court 103 pages of opinions, concurrences and dissent to work it all out. The good news is that eight members of the court landed on the right conclusion, agreeing that the Second Amendment permits laws like the one that stripped weapons from Zackey Rahimi, a domestic abuser and general public menace who shoots guns the way regular people shake hands. The spectacle of judges role-playing as amateur historians is embarrassing to watch, and yet the court chose to put itself in this position with its gobsmacking 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which required that any gun law be “consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.”

Persons: concurrences, Zackey Organizations: United States Supreme, New York, Inc Locations: New

☆ Parents of Addicts See Themselves in Joe Biden’s Love for Hunter Biden - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( David Sheff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When my son Nic was born, I was like other parents who hope that their children will be healthy and happy. But when Nic became addicted to heroin and methamphetamine as a teenager, my dreams shifted. I’ve been thinking about another father of a son with a severe substance-use disorder; a son who survived and is now in recovery. But much of the discourse around Joe and Hunter Biden seems so wrongheaded to me. That’s because it reflects a profound misunderstanding of the relationship many parents have with children with substance-use disorders.

Persons: Nic, I’ve, Biden, Hunter, Joe, Hunter Biden

☆ Euro 2024 day three: Eriksen’s feel-good moment, Bellingham – and police incidents
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-16 | by ( Dan Sheldon | Carl Anka | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Another day at Euro 2024, another trio of goalscoring games — even if the entertainment factor dipped off at points. The Netherlands overcame Poland with a 2-1 win, Denmark were held to a 1-1 draw by Slovenia, while England beat Serbia 1-0. But the goals, a lack of shots in one game and the results don’t tell the whole story of the day. The feel-good moment of the daySunday marked 1,100 days since Christian Eriksen collapsed at Copenhagen’s Parken stadium during a Euro 2020 game against Finland after suffering a cardiac arrest. He’s not fazed by anything, but will be key to England if they want to have a chance of winning Euro 2024.

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☆ Supreme Court’s abortion pill ruling puts new focus on conservative Trump judge in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( John Fritze | Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In the mifepristone case, Kacsmaryk’s initial ruling was notable not just for its sweeping nature but in how he embraced the anti-abortion movement’s sensational rhetoric about the procedure. The groups fighting mifepristone argue that the Supreme Court’s decision shouldn’t affect the states’ ability to sue. Both the FDA and several medical groups, including the American Medical Association, told the Supreme Court that mifepristone is safe. But the Supreme Court knocked that argument aside, noting that federal law already allows doctors to avoid performing procedures that violate their conscience. Adam Unikowsky, a veteran Supreme Court litigator who has closely followed the mifepristone case, predicted it will be hard for the states to get the issue back before the Supreme Court.

Persons: Matthew Kacsmaryk, Donald Trump, ”, Carrie Flaxman, Brett Kavanaugh, mifepristone, ” Kavanaugh, Roe, Wade, Kansas –, Andrew Bailey, Kacsmaryk, Joe Biden’s, Biden, it’s, ” Julia Kaye, Erin Hawley, “, –, Adam Unikowsky, litigator, Unikowsky, They’re, ” Jaime Santos, Goodwin, “ that’s, Kavanaugh, isn’t Organizations: CNN, Trump, mifepristone, Supreme, Food, Democracy Forward, and Drug Administration, Republican, Alliance for Hippocratic, Biden, ACLU, Defending, FDA, American Medical Association Locations: Texas, Amarillo, – Missouri, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, Texas ’, Mexico, Missouri , Idaho

☆ Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on bump stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( John Fritze | Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Bump stocks allow a shooter to convert a semi-automatic rifle into a weapon that can fire at a rate of hundreds of rounds a minute. The federal rule made possession of a bump stock a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Both the Trump and Biden administrations, as well as gun control groups, said the way bump stocks work mean they qualify as machine guns. Trump described bump stocks at the time as converting “legal weapons into illegal machines.”ATF estimated that as many as 520,000 bump stocks were sold between 2010 and 2018. “Without this ongoing manual input, a semiautomatic rifle with a bump stock will not fire multiple shots.

Persons: Donald Trump, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, Trump, ” Thomas, Michael Cargill, Sotomayor, “, ” Sotomayor, Sandy Hook, Capone, Al Capone, John Dillinger, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, ensnare, you’re, ” Kavanaugh, Biden, “ That’s, Thomas Organizations: CNN, Supreme, Trump, Biden, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, ATF, Democratic, Republican, Court, US, Justice Department, Cargill, National Rifle Association Locations: Las Vegas, Texas, New York

☆ The Supreme Court Rejected the Ban on Bump Stocks
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Justin Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court today struck down a ban on bump stocks, which enable semiautomatic rifles to fire rapidly like machine guns. The ban was enacted by the Trump administration after a deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. The decision, by a vote of 6 to 3, split along ideological lines. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed a dissent along with two other judges, saying the decision “puts machine guns back in civilian hands.” President Biden urged Congress to act to ban the device. The man who challenged the bump stock ban, a gun shop owner in Texas, said that the ruling was a broader victory for gun rights and that it would make it easier to challenge future attempts by the A.T.F.

Persons: Trump, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, ”, Biden Organizations: Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives Locations: Las Vegas, Texas

☆ Alito says he's sure Congress wanted to ban a rapid-fire gun device, but overturns the rule anyway
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewThere's "little doubt," Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote, that Congress would have considered bump stocks akin to a machine gun. AdvertisementThe Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule that classified bump stocks as "machine guns." He argued it had been too broad in interpreting firearms law and that Congress never explicitly meant to ban bump stocks, challenging the law on statutory grounds, not Second Amendment protections. "A bump stock does not convert a semi-automatic rifle into a machinegun any more than a shooter with a lightning-fast trigger finger does," Thomas wrote. AdvertisementBut Alito said Congress needs to be explicit that it wants to ban bump stocks, too, by amending the law or passing a new one.

Persons: —, Samuel Alito, Alito, Trump, Michael Cargill, Clarence Thomas, Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, it'll Organizations: Service, Las, Business, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, Explosives, ATF Locations: Austin , Texas, Las Vegas

☆ Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Decision Will Prove Fatal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( David Firestone | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There was nothing abstract about the 6-to-3 decision issued Friday morning by the Supreme Court to permit bump stocks to be used on semiautomatic rifles. It is one of the most astonishingly dangerous decisions ever issued by the court, and it will almost surely result in a loss of American lives in another mass shooting. Bump stocks attach to the back of a rifle and use the gun’s recoil to enable shooting hundreds of bullets at a very rapid pace, far faster than anyone could shoot by pressing the trigger multiple times. Bump stock devices were banned the next year, just as all fully automatic machine guns are banned for public use, but the six conservative members of the court seemed entirely unbothered by their deadly potential. The opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, parses in a ridiculous level of detail whether bump stocks truly fit the precise mechanical definition of a machine gun.

Persons: Clarence Thomas, parses, Trump Organizations: Vegas, Firearms Policy Foundation

☆ Hunter Biden Is Expected to Appeal Conviction on Gun Charges
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Glenn Thrush | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hunter Biden is expected to appeal his felony conviction for falsifying a federal firearms application, likely arguing that the judge in the case violated his constitutional rights in her instructions to the jury, according to people in his orbit and legal experts. Mr. Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell has also signaled that any appeal would be based on the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in 2022 that vastly expanded gun rights, a ruling that spawned legal challenges to the part of the federal firearms form at the center of the Biden case. In Mr. Biden’s case, it included a question asking buyers about their drug use. There is still a possibility that David C. Weiss, the special counsel in the case, will seek a plea agreement before the tax trial begins, and would have leverage in negotiations now that Mr. Biden is already a convicted felon, according to former prosecutors. Mr. Biden might have greater incentive to reach a deal to avoid another public airing of his personal ordeal beyond what was presented in Wilmington last week.

Persons: Hunter Biden, Biden’s, Abbe Lowell, Biden, David C, Weiss Locations: Wilmington, Del, Los Angeles

☆ Biden heralds his efforts to strengthen gun laws hours after son convicted on firearms charges
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Michael Williams | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Speaking at an Everytown for Gun Safety event under a banner that read “Gun Sense University” in large block letters, the president did not reference his son’s conviction. Hunter Biden was pronounced guilty earlier in the day of three felony charges after a jury found he lied on a form by saying he was not abusing drugs when he purchased a firearm in 2018. Nothing will ever change that.”The painful moment for the Biden family comes a day before President Biden is expected to leave for a three-day trip to Italy for the G7 summit. As the trial was underway last week, Biden was in France commemorating D-Day. He also frequently touts signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which was the first significant gun safety legislation in a quarter-century when it was passed.

Persons: Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Biden, Jill, ” Biden, Hunter, Jill Biden, “, we’ve, Donald Trump, Trump, ”, CNN’s Kevin Liptak Organizations: Washington CNN, White House, Safer Communities, NRA Locations: Wilmington, Italy, France, Delaware, Texas, New York

A jury in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday found Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, guilty of three felony counts for lying on a federal firearms application, a shattering blow for the Biden family in the middle of an unforgiving presidential election campaign. The verdict brought an end to an extraordinary seven-day trial that made painfully public Mr. Biden’s crack addiction, reckless behavior and ruinous spending — narrated by three former romantic partners, including the widow of his brother, Beau Biden, and by the defendant himself in the pages of his memoir. The charges that Mr. Biden was convicted of stem from the purchase of a Colt pistol in October 2018, and also included illegal possession of a weapon after falsely claiming to be drug-free on the standard background check required in all firearms transactions. Mr. Biden, 54, faces up to 25 years in prison, although federal sentencing guidelines call for a fraction of that penalty. First-time offenders who did not use their weapons to commit violent crimes typically see little jail time, and prosecutors suggested they would not seek a sentence more severe than for any other person convicted in such a case.

Persons: Hunter Biden, Biden’s, Biden, Beau Biden, Mr Locations: Wilmington, Del

☆ Biden Addresses Gun-Control Group Hours After Son’s Firearms Conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | More About Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Biden was speaking just hours after his son Hunter Biden was convicted in Delaware of three felony counts of lying on a federal firearms application in 2018. Previously, the president had vowed not to pardon Hunter Biden if he were to be found guilty. He did not address his son’s conviction during his remarks on Tuesday. Mr. Biden has made gun reform a central part of his administration. The passage of the bill ended nearly three decades of gridlock over gun reform in Washington, although it fell short of many of the sweeping measures sought by Democrats.

Persons: Biden, Hunter Biden, Hunter, ”, Mr, “, ” Eileen Sullivan Organizations: White, Republicans Locations: Delaware, Uvalde , Texas, Washington, Wilmington, Del

☆ Jurors detail to CNN how they reached guilty verdict in Hunter Biden gun trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

10 told CNN. Another juror told CNN that she believed Biden “needs rehab more than imprisonment or a fine.”Juror No. The case “seemed like a waste of taxpayer dollars,” one female juror told CNN, though juror No. 10 told CNN. Each juror CNN spoke with acknowledged the weight of having her in the courtroom.

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☆ Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Marshall Cohen | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —A federal jury has convicted Hunter Biden on all three federal felony gun charges he faced, concluding that he violated laws meant to prevent drug addicts from owning firearms. Leaving the courthouse after the verdict, Hunter Biden shuffled his family members into an elevator as he held hands with his wife. The weeklong gun trial featured intensely personal and gut-wrenching testimony about Hunter Biden’s well-known struggles with alcoholism and crack cocaine addiction. Hunter Biden’s defense team argued, unsuccessfully, that he didn’t view himself as a user or addict when he bought and possessed the gun. Defense attorney Abbe Lowell had implored the jury to acquit Hunter Biden on those grounds.

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☆ Hunter Biden guilty in criminal gun trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

watch nowA jury convicted Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, of all three counts at his criminal gun trial in Delaware federal court on Tuesday morning. Hunter Biden looked straight ahead at the jury and nodded slightly as three guilty verdicts were read, eight days after the trial began and after only about three hours of jurors deliberating. Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs from the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building on June 3 2024, in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden is due to speak about gun control at an event on Tuesday afternoon. Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden and U.S. first lady Jill Biden leave the federal court after the jury finds him guilty on all three counts in his trial on criminal gun charges, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 11, 2024.

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