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David Smith in Washington

Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to three federal gun charges

Hunter Biden in Wilmington, Delaware, on 3 October.
Hunter Biden in Wilmington, Delaware, on 3 October. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to three federal gun charges in a politically fraught case that could go to trial in the heat of the US president’s 2024 re-election campaign.

Hunter Biden, 53, the first child of a sitting president to be criminally prosecuted, was arraigned at a court in Wilmington, Delaware, accused of unlawfully possessing a gun as an illegal drug user and lying about his drug use on a background check form when he bought a Colt Cobra revolver in 2018.

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