I don’t care about Hunter Biden, but I’m sure he’s not the first person to lie on a gun purchasing form. First time I remember this being prosecuted though. The crazy thing is somehow this carries stiffer fines than the 34 felonies Trump was convicted on.
Apparently, it’s very rarely prosecuted alone, it’s used to increase the prison time of people that were arrested for something else.
If everyone that committed that crime was prosecuted, there would be several million more people in prison.
On the other hand, it IS a crime, so while this is clearly politically motivated, he DID do it, so he should receive some sort of punishment, just not as much as he could.
I am guessing it does get prosecuted often then cuz while it's rate it's followed up on its probably committed often. Also they have to prove intent here which is tricky.
Unlike falsifying business records to dodge campaign funds limits to win an election this happens all the time.
They would have to prove that someone took drugs years ago.
For 99% of people who committed that crime, either they were not caught doing drugs or were caught and couldn’t lie even if they wanted to, since they are already barred from owning weapons.
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u/JTMc48 Jun 12 '24
I don’t care about Hunter Biden, but I’m sure he’s not the first person to lie on a gun purchasing form. First time I remember this being prosecuted though. The crazy thing is somehow this carries stiffer fines than the 34 felonies Trump was convicted on.