In between buying and smoking crack, Hunter Biden also bought a gun. While buying crack (which has sent a whole lot of people to prison, but it’s okay if you’re the president’s son and writing a memoir about it) is fine, buying a gun and lying about your crackhead status is a federal offense and it’s one of Hunter’s many crimes.

But Hunter has a great defense.

“The defense also said that Hunter just wandered into the store and was pressured to buy a gun. The store employee testified that he came into the store specifically looking for the gun,” Jonathan Turley tweeted.

I’m always offended when I walk into a furniture store with no intention of buying furniture and then buy a couch.

How many people who have no interest in buying guns walk into gun stores?

Occam’s Razor says that if Hunter went into a gun store, it was to buy a gun and not to check out the pine tree air filter selection.

Hunter’s defense is that he didn’t identify as a crackhead at the time.

Jurors have also been shown dozens of pages of Hunter Biden’s memoir, “Beautiful Things,” written in 2021 after he got sober. And they heard lengthy audio excerpts from the book, which traces his descent into addiction following the death of his brother, Beau Biden, in 2015 from cancer. The memoir covers the period he bought the gun, though it doesn’t mention the weapon specifically.

Lowell has said Hunter Biden’s state of mind was different when he wrote the book than when he purchased the gun, when he didn’t believe he had an addiction.

So Hunter was buying and smoking massive amounts of crack, but was unaware that he was doing it?

The ATF form states, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”

We can quibble about addiction, but it specifically states “unlawful user of.”

The key issue, though, said Lowell, is “what Hunter thought at the time” he bought the handgun.

Lowell told jurors that people who suffer from addiction are often “in a deep state of denial” and that by checking “no” on the form, he didn’t intend to deceive the gun store or federal authorities.

The attorney stressed that while Form 4473 has definitions about terms such as fugitive, it included no definitions for “addicted to” or “unlawful user” of drugs – the two critical terms in question for the trial.

Hunter was so in denial that while smoking crack, he didn’t understand that he was an “unlawful user” of the crack he was smoking.

Also, there’s no definition of “unlawful user” of drugs which probably confused Hunter who has a law degree from Yale.

What could the form possibly mean by “unlawful user” of drugs, the Yale JD wondered while buying a gun.