Rep. Thomas Massie, the 2024 keynote to RMGO, notes irony of President Biden pardon

By / / Approved, National, Rocky Mountain Voice

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice

In the wake of President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter, for a variety of criminal offenses, including the unlawful purchase of a firearm, one 2nd Amendment advocate familiar to gun-owning Coloradans noted the irony.

U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, who was the keynote speaker this year at the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners’ annual banquet, called upon Biden to expand the pardon in an effort for equal application of the law.

“Since Joe Biden thinks a particular gun law shouldn’t be enforced for his son Hunter Biden, he should pardon everyone who’s been prosecuted under that same provision,” Massey wrote on Twitter/X.

In addition to his role this year with RMGO, Massie holds a perfect rating from Gun Owners of America and an A grade from the National Rifle Association. He also had a perfect grade in the most recent rating by the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

In response to Massie, Gun Owners of America wrote on X, “Agree & then abolish all made-up ATF gun registration paperwork like Forms 4473!”

Also on Monday, Massie noted a “pardon President Biden should make: Julian Assange.” It’s a plea he made in a Nov. 1, 2024, letter.