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Diversion Agreement & DOJ Stonewalling: Hunter Biden’s defense claims a “diversion agreement” shields him from gun charge prosecution, while the DOJ is stonewalling a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Questionable NICS Self-Submission Form: Despite claims that signing a government form shouldn’t relinquish one’s 2A rights, questions arise about the Executive branch’s authority to create new rules, particularly with FBI disavowing the NICS Indices Self-Submission form.
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Secret Service Involvement & FOIA: Reports suggested the Secret Service was on-scene when authorities investigated Halley Biden discarding Hunter’s gun. The agency denies involvement. ATF refused to answer FOIA requests related to the gun charge, citing “privacy interests.”
“Hunter Biden has been ordered to supply a court update by Sept. 6 on a felony gun charges against him,” Washington Examiner reports. “Defense attorneys have claimed a ‘diversion agreement’ shielding President Joe Biden’s son from prosecution on the gun charge is still in place.
With the Department of Justice stonewalling on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request necessitating the filing of a complaint to try and obtain compliance, don’t look for the update to answer where the U.S. attorneys get their authority from to require Biden to “consent to a permanent entry in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System such that he will be denied via NICS if he attempts to legally purchase another firearm.”
“[A] person does not lose his Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms simply because he signed a government form purporting to relinquish them,” Erich Pratt, Senior Vice President of Gun Owners of America, informed Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray in a September 2022 letter addressing the NICS Indices Self-Submission form, which the FBI has since disavowed using.
Whether that’s true or not, the same principle would apply that unless a citizen falls into one of the “prohibited persons” categories established by Congressionally-enacted law, no one in the Executive branch has the delegated authority to create new conditions and classifications.
Not that that stops them from trying.
“Indeed, if such persons had met the Congressional test for ‘prohibited persons’ under any other federal prohibitor, there would have been no need to coerce them into signing the form,” Pratt observed.
Not that logical consistency is a requirement for Biden administration functionaries, either.
Unlawfully usurping authority isn’t the only thing the government is trying to hide in this case, and by that, I mean in relation to guns.
The rest of the mess dealing with finances and bribery, the Big Guy with his hidden email aliases, and the appointment of slow-walking cleanup specialist David Weiss as “special counsel” will need to be unraveled with an end run around the DSM by others with the resources to investigate adequately, and it ultimately depends on whether House Oversight is serious about playing hardball and compelling answers under oath.
So far, it doesn’t look like the Committee has any appetite for following up on the permanent entry question. Republicans had to be dragged kicking and screaming into Fast and Furious, too.
The other thing it looks like Oversight has no interest in is questions raised when authorities first investigated Halley Biden throwing Hunter’s gun into a market dumpster. Credible reports placed the Secret Service at the scene, but the agency has signed an affidavit swearing under penalty of perjury that it has no records of involvement, leading to the following questions:
Were the reports wrong? If not, was anyone from the Secret Service working “off books”? And if not, who were those guys?
Finding answers would require subpoenaing federal and local law enforcement personnel who were on-scene and requiring their testimony under oath. Assuming they’re more scared of Republicans than they are of their bosses…
As things stand, repeated refusals by ATF to answer another FOIA request and a defeat of a resulting complaint in court due to Hunter Bidens’ “privacy interests” mean a new FOIA can’t be filed until the current gun charge against him is resolved. That’s because, without an end to the investigation and affected litigation in sight, ATF will stall on answering indefinitely.
So much for “bringing truth and transparency [and]respect for free press … back to government.” And so much for Joe Biden believing in “universal background checks” for safety, as opposed to as a weapon intended to facilitate citizen disarmament while his son gets special treatment from the president’s lackeys.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
this administration is as transparent as a concrete wall. virtually nothing they are going is in compliance with federal law from the border to sending ukraine tens of billions of dollars, to foia requests. CAN YOU SAY TYRANNICAL?
oxymoron…honesty in government….
Yes. Reminds one of “jumbo shrimp” and “military intelligence”, doesn’t it?
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And don’t forget “guest host” there!
So funny how you Russians are so Triggered about us supporting the Ukraine now that you pet Traitor Trump is no longer in office
Have you ever heard the term “Egg Sucking Dog?”
Voting Democrat is a mental disorder.
He’s just a victim of his own confusion.
I think he’s a victim of a supposed adult still living in his parent’s basement. But that would create some pretty extreme confusion. Is he 3o years old… or 4? So, yup. Pretty confused. I wonder if he’s a she, or she’s a he, or is it just an it? Is it possible to be 35 years old chronologically, but yet remain 4 mentally… forever?
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He’s not even amusing like Loren Cardinal is:
https://youtu.be/VWLdRqsNXNs?si=YQdBiABRqSH8CeFB&t=233
Don’t forget you can’t understand him through his double mask and quintuple vaccinated they/them nose ring.
Do the letters: “F. O.” mean anything to you?
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These are the tyrants we were warned about.
If it were me instead of this POS, I’d be making gravel out of boulders at a road prison by now. Nothing will be done.
So the Biden crime family/crackheads/Burisma scammers use their control of the Dept. of INjustice to get away with whatever they can steal? So what else is not new?
S.S.D.D. The more things change… the more they stay the same.
Scratching my head on this “privacy interests” thing. Does that mean, if I’m under investigation, I can ignore a subpoena or search warrant because it violates my privacy interests? Or does that only work for the elite.
Even though Hunter Bidin is the son of the (choke/gag) president, he’s a private citizen and subject to the same laws and rules as the rest of us. Indict, prosecute, convict, and put him where he belongs.
The corruption of this administration knows no bounds! This is something they’ve been working toward since Clinton. It’s not just the Dems, it also encompasses most Repubs. The judges they want have been appointed, and the right people are installed within the DOJ. There isn’t much left to do except take our way of fighting back away from us, and as most people can tell that are not living under a rock, that is in the process of happening now!
Clinton? Try taking a closer look at most of them going back at least to the former corporate railroad lawyer from Illinois.
They will ignore the judge. And get away with it.
I would love to blame O’biden-harris and the hunter for all the trouble and turmoil but I blame the voters who empowered and raised these trashy scum up to High Office. America can only be saved if Democrat voters wake up and stop voting Demoncrap because there are not enough right thinkers voting these days.
Unfortunately it’s not that simple. There are plenty of unworthy republican politicians. Issue is voters mindlessly voting party line regardless of quality of individual candidates.
It ain’t how many voted for this one or that one. ‘ve seen very damning evidence from at least eight states regarding that “election”, any two of which, had they been accurately counted, would almost certainly put Trump back in the White House. Yes I held my nose when I marked his oval, but I’m firmly convinced had that happened we’d be in a VERY different situation now. I also am convinced that the antics of the current whackministration have helped to awaken many erstwhile comatose voters. We shall see about that, particularly if those running this circus sideshow can… Read more »
@Ti, There is no interest in accurately counting votes. The fix is in and they will make Biden the victor come Hell or high water. Tyranny is already here in full force. The question is: what are we Patriots gonna do about it? Huh?
These demorats were not voted in, they stole the election by fraud.
Yes we know you are a failed little Nazi Incel Pud
Don’t often agree with you – but on this you are spot on.