Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, has been indicted by federal prosecutors on gun charges.
The three charges stem from an investigation by special counsel David Weiss, whom U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed last month to explore possible wrongdoing by the president’s son.
Two charges concern Hunter Biden, 53, allegedly submitting a form falsely stating that he was not using illegal narcotics when he purchased a Colt Cobra revolver in 2018, and one concerns him allegedly possessing that firearm while using narcotics.
Biden took those actions “knowing that he was an unlawful user of and addicted to any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance,” the indictment reads.
The president’s son has said himself, in his memoir and in a court filing, that he was “smoking crack every 15 minutes,” around the time he bought the gun, adding that he believes his addiction stems from the trauma of surviving a car crash that killed his mother and…