The application does not ask if you ever were a drug addict. It asks if you are one, in the present tense.
How can the law prove he was a drug addict, at the time of the application, and not "on the wagon" at the time of the gun application? His discharge from the military for drug use, was 5 years earlier.....
This is tricky.... it's not a slam dunk!
Hunter Biden purchased the pistol on Oct. 12, 2018. And he was a drug addict in possession of the pistol when Hunter sent text messages about three months later, one that was sent Jan. 29, 2019,
said of Hallie:
She stole the gun out of my trunk lock box and threw it in a garbage can full to the top at Jansens [sic]. Then told me it was my problem to deal with.
Then when the police[,] the FBI [and] the secret service came on the scene she said she took it from me because she was scared I would harm myself due to my drug and alcohol problem and our volatile relationship and that she was afraid for the kids.
Really not joking the cop kept me convinced that Hallie was implying she was scared of me.
Biden’s purchase of the handgun in October 2018 came five years after the Navy discharged him in 2013 for testing positive for cocaine. The president’s son writes about his drug addiction in his new memoir,
saying it extended through 2018.
"USA Today reported that his memoir “Beautiful Things”
refers to his struggles with drugs in spring 2018 and fall 2018, when his family tried to intervene.
Hunter Biden writes about using his “superpower—finding crack anytime, anywhere” while in Los Angeles in 2018; he recounts learning how to cook drugs, writing: “I never slept. There was no clock. Day bled into night and night into day.”
"In 2019, the New York Post
reported that in late 2018, Biden “was suspected of smoking crack inside a strip club” in Washington. Biden’s lawyer, Mesires, didn’t reply to the Post’s requests for comment."
Did Hunter Biden Violate Law in Buying Handgun? 3 Big Questions