The Secret Service has denied in the past that they had any involvement in the Hunter Biden gun case which took place in 2018 when Biden was not a protectee of the Secret Service.
But now, new questions are being raised based on a filing from special counsel David Weiss pertaining to the FBI interview with Ron Palmieri, the owner of StarQuest Shooters, the store from which Hunter bought his gun. Palmieri was interviewed by the FBI last week. He said that Hunter Biden bought the gun on Oct. 12, 2018.
Palmieri said that because his father, Joe Biden wasn’t a “gun supporter,” he wanted to get him out of the store as fast as he could because he thought he could be bad for business.
Then 12 days later, Palmieri said that the Delaware State Police and Secret Service separately came into the store, asking about the paperwork Hunter filled out during the gun transaction. Palmieri said, “They said the firearm was involved in a case of some kind and they wanted to expedite the trace process and get access to the Form 4473.” He said that “both agencies asked the same questions and it appeared they were not aware of each other’s investigations.”
But that sounded hinky to Palmieri so he asked someone at the ATF, Special Agent Jason Reisch, who advised him “not to turn the original Form 4473 over to anyone” and to only turn it over if he felt he had to, according to the FBI document. He eventually turned over the paperwork to the ATF.
The alleged visits to the gun store by the Delaware State Police and the Secret Service were the day after the gun went missing. Hunter also made a reference to the Secret Service in a text message found on his laptop when he was talking about how his then-girlfriend, his dead brother’s wife Hallie, got rid of the gun.