Given the fact that Joe Biden and family no longer received security coverage from Joe’s eight years as Vice President, perhaps Hunter thought that his Father and their family might be at risk. However, it is a simple fact that Hunter well knew that his history excluded him from owning a firearm and he knew that he was lying on the required forms.
While Hunter’s lying on firearm purchase forms is, indeed, a crime, we have no evidence that he intended to use the firearm he was attempting to purchase for criminal activities. We do know that tax evasion is, indeed, a crime and tax evasion of that amount, a rather serious crime. If the son of a lifelong politician attempts to defraud the IRS of taxes in the amount that has been officially claimed that he did, it does reflect on the “politician”, himself in a very negative way.
One certainly must wonder if the father failed to raise his son to obey the law, could there be a “like father, like son” situation that might well exist?