WILMINGTON, Delaware — A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of all three charges he was facing related to a 2018 gun purchase, marking the first time in history the son of a sitting president has been criminally convicted.
His charges included lying on a federal form about his drug use to purchase a revolver, submitting a false statement into a federal record, and unlawfully possessing the firearm for 11 days.
He faces up to 25 years in prison, but as a first-time offender, his sentence is likely to be far less than that.
The week-long trial was a deeply personal rehashing of a dark period of drug and alcohol addiction for Biden, who has said he has been sober since mid-2019.
“Addiction is not a choice, but lying and buying a gun is a choice,” Derek Hines, a federal prosecutor,
