The odd part about it is that all the media reporting on it seems to fail to say how unusual a case it is and how it is pretty strange it was brought in the first place. 

The main problem being, the leap to try to tie what Hunter wrote in a book to a day he spent many years ago filling out an application to buy a gun. I just don't see an evidence trail with that you could get a conviction on. I read that the conviction is not the goal here for Republicans, it is just to have a case where they can bring up dirt on Hunter and get the infamous laptop into the headlines again.

Of course, there is a huge focus on the "hypocrisy" here and how in this case suddenly the right wing nuts want to prosecute a gun crime to the fullest extent of the law and the left wing believes this is no big deal, which it basically isn't, but it allows for this comparison to be made.

Also one article I read mentioned that some Republicans went to Joe before he ran in 2020 and told him, "If you run, we will mercilessly go after your son but if you don't we will leave him alone." 

I was not sure I believed that because wouldn't that sort of threat be a crime? I mean, I know all is fair in love and politics, and once you run the bullseye is on your back and the back of everybody close to you but to outright threaten that?