"The idea, the idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick. It has no no socially redeeming value. Zero. None. Not single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun mfg."
Really? "
we still allow????? WTH???
Allow???? Its called the 2nd amendment you babbling buffoon. I wonder if he is alarmed about his son, Hunter, buying a semi auto handgun, ILLEGALLY? It's all been covered up. Now, you law and order types that want equality and equal protection and all of the virtue signalling cliches should be screaming from the roof tops.
Looks like the secret service "stepped in" and "took care of it."
Secret Service Repeatedly Changes Its Story on Hunter Biden Gun RecordsThe United States Secret Service has repeatedly changed its position on whether it is in possession of records related to the investigation of Hunter Biden’s gun, which was reportedly disposed of in a dumpster in Delaware.The...
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Secret Service Repeatedly Changes Its Story on Hunter Biden Gun Records
The United States Secret Service has repeatedly
changed its position on whether it is in possession of records related to the investigation of Hunter Biden’s gun, which was reportedly disposed of in a dumpster in Delaware.
The agency now says it has located more than 100 records, totaling over 400 pages, but won’t complete its initial processing of them until January 9, 2023.
We are investigating whether and how the Secret Service intervened for Hunter Biden in an incident involving a gun he allegedly owned. In September, we filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
lawsuit for records or communications about the reported purchase, possession, and disposal of a firearm owned by Hunter Biden found in a Delaware dumpster in October 2018 (
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (No. 1:22-cv-02841)).
The Secret Service initially responded to our request on April 2, 2021, stating that it had located potentially responsive records and would process them in accordance with FOIA. Then, on October 13, 2022, the agency said the April 2021 response was sent in error and that it did not have any records responsive to the FOIA request.
Then,
on November 10, 2022, the agency informed the District Court that it has run supplemental searches and has located over 100 records, totaling over 400 pages, potentially responsive to our request.
Is it simply coincidence that the second message from the Secret Service came after the November 8 midterm election?
The Secret Service also told the court that it would complete its initial processing of all potentially responsive records by January 9, 2023, and send records out for any necessary consultations with other Executive Branch entities by that date. All other non-exempt, responsive records are to be produced to us by January 9.
The Secret Service’s changing story on records raises additional questions about its role in the Hunter Biden gun incident. One thing is clear: Our persistence means the public may get records that the Secret Service suggested didn’t exist.
In October 2020,
The Blaze reported that in October 2018, Hunter Biden’s handgun was taken by Hallie Biden, the widow of then-presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son Beau. In 2021,
Politicoreported:
Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone.
Delaware police began investigating, concerned that the trash can was across from a high school and that the missing gun could be used in a crime, according to law enforcement officials and a copy of the police report obtained by POLITICO.
But a curious thing happened at the time: Secret Service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom has firsthand knowledge of the episode and the other was briefed by a Secret Service agent after the fact.
Our investigation of Hunter Biden includes:
In October 2022, we filed a FOIA
lawsuit against the Department of Justice for all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten regarding an August 6, 2020, briefing provided to members of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) raised concerns that the briefing was intended to undermine the senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden.
In December 2020, we received
records from the State Department tying Hunter Biden’s Burisma Holdings’ lobbying operation to an influence-peddling operation involving the Clinton campaign during the 2016 election. Also uncovered were State Department
records showing that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.
In October 2020, we revealed State Department
records that included a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which was hired by Burisma Holdings to combat
corruption allegations. The briefing checklist notes that Painter also planned
to meet with Foreign Commercial Service (FCS) Officer Martin Claessens “regarding the Burisma Group energy company.” (Painter was implicated in the Clinton-era
fundraising scandal we exposed. It involved the alleged sale of seats on Commerce Department trade missions to Democratic National Committee donors.)
In September 2020, State Department
records revealed a January 17, 2017, email from George Kent, the Obama administration’s deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of Ukraine policy, which was copied to then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, highlighting Russia-linked media “trolling” Joe Biden over “his son’s business.” An
email was sent four days prior to the inauguration of President Donald Trump to a redacted recipient and CCd to Yovanovitch with the subject line “medvedchuk-linked vesti trolls Biden.” Kent writes: “Burisma – gift that keeps on giving. (With medvedchuk affiliated Vesti pushing the troll like storyline on visit day)”
In June 2020, U.S. Secret Service
records showed that, for the first five and a half years of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a Secret Service protective detail. During the time period of the records provided, Hunter Biden took 411 separate domestic and international flights, including to 29 different foreign countries. He visited China five times.
We are also
suing the DHS for Secret Service records on Hunter Biden’s travel and security costs, and
suing the State Department for messages sent through the
SMART (State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention Hunter Biden.
As the Hunter Biden scandal issues are often directly about Joe Biden scandal issues, Judicial Watch will continue its leadership role in investigating and exposing this important aspect of government corruption.
