When Cory Allen More’s vehicle ran out of gas last year, a police officer stopped to help and spotted two bags of marijuana and a handgun.
More pleaded guilty in federal court in Iowa this week to being a drug user in possession of a firearm — the same kind of charge Hunter Biden went on trial for this week in a federal court in Delaware.
Mr. Biden says he’s being singled out for prosecution, and suggests nobody else in his situation would face charges.
More, 33, admitted in court documents that he had previous arrests for possession of drugs, had been a methamphetamine user and now only used marijuana. He also admitted to owning several guns.
In another case this week in Iowa, Brittany Graham, 36, pleaded guilty to being a marijuana user and owning four guns.
Both More and Graham face up to 15 years in prison for their convictions.
The Washington Times reported earlier this month that experts say that drug-gun cases like this are rare, but not unheard of.
Graham, like Mr. Biden, had argued to her judge that the law prohibiting drug users from owning firearms is unconstitutional. The Justice Department said she raised that issue too late.
In Mr. Biden’s case, an appeals court has said that’s an issue to be decided after the trial.
Mr. Biden faces three charges stemming from his purchase of a Colt revolver in 2018, including lying on the background check form when he said he was an illegal drug user and possessing the weapon while being an illegal drug user.
Investigators got involved after his then-paramour, the widow of his brother, plucked the gun from his vehicle and dumped it in the garbage at a supermarket, saying she feared he was a danger.
Prosecutors point to his own memoir and text messages as evidence he was a drug user at the time. He wrote about his extensive use of cocaine and his desperate bids to score another hit.
His lawyer, in court this week, argued that Mr. Biden didn’t consider himself a drug user.
• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.