Gun store employee pressed on how ID was recorded on form
Jason Turner, an employee at the gun shop that sold Hunter Biden the Colt revolver at the center of the case, corroborated on the stand clerk Gordon Cleveland's earlier testimony of the sequence of events that occurred in the store when Hunter Biden filled out the ATF form and purchased the gun.
Turner, who appeared defensive and confrontational during some of his testimony, testified that he never spoke to Hunter Biden.
When shown the ATF Form 4473 that Hunter Biden filled out, Turner said Hunter Biden provided his car registration as an alternate form of ID because the passport he provided did not have an address.
The defense said in court papers filed earlier that confusion over how Hunter Biden's form of ID was recorded on the ATF form raised questions about "who wrote what on the form, and when."
When defense attorney Abbe Lowell, questioning Turner, highlighted the box on the form that asks for the type of alternate ID, it was blank.
"When I wrote that out, I wrote 'car registration,'" Turner said. "It's not there," he testified.
Lowell also pressed Turner on what he was doing after Hunter Biden's background check came back until the firearm was purchased.
"I would have put on my ritual tone and sat in a marble room," Turner said sarcastically.
Ron Palmieri, the owner of the gun store, then took the stand.
