Judge won't force disclosure of records on alleged episode with Hunter Biden's gun

The privacy interests of President Joe Biden's son trump a blogger's Freedom of Information Act suit, the federal court rules.

By Josh Gerstein, Politico, Sept. 13, 2022

A court has rejected a lawsuit seeking to force the public disclosure of federal records about a 2018 episode in which a gun belonging to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter was allegedly thrown in a trash can.

In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras found that the public interest in the handling of any investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives into the episode was “significant,” but that the importance of Hunter Biden’s privacy as a private citizen outweighed the value of releasing any such records to the public.

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