What Matters Off the ATF Form 4473?

 Nothing much with questions one through twenty-two....they are fairly standard questions. 

But when you come to the group under question 23....now, you need to pay attention.

For example....it asks you....yes or no....are you buying this for yourself?  It's a plain simple question, but you need to ensure that this is strictly for yourself.

Then there's the question...have you committed a felony...to include your time in the military?  Yes, or no....nothing inbetween.

Are you charged and the cops hunting for you?  Yes, or no.

Are you a user of any drug (to include weed)?  Yes, or no.  If you've been on some crack, and gotten busted two years ago....you need to say 'yes'.   If you got busted for a baggy of weed six weeks ago....you need to say 'yes'.

Do you have a mental defect?  Yes, or no.  If you've been to some clinic and they say you have elements of paranoid schizophrenia?  That would be a mental defect.

So we come to Hunter Biden.  His discharge from the Navy?  Regular discharge, not a dishonorable one.  He simply failed the drug test, and they let him go.  For that episode....he's clear.

When filling out the 4473?  Well....here's the thing, by the admission to the Navy to get the regular discharge....he just admitted he had an issue.  Once he walked in and bought the weapon....filling out the 4473, he had to admit that he had been a cocaine user in the past.  

The fact that he's been a regular cocaine user for probably two decades?  Again, he had to admit that on the 4473, or he did an illegal purchase.

The problem I see here....since the form still exists, and the Secret Service was not successful in getting it from the gun shop (silly boys from the Secret Service)....you got a serious gun violation.

But I would go and ask this question....out of a 17-million 4473's filled out in 2020....how many were screwed-up like this, in a Hunter-fashion?  How many had drug violations or mental health violations?  Five percent?  Ten-percent?  

It's silly to talk over this Hunter Biden case, but it shows the whole discussion going on.