Federal law generally prohibits people from possessing firearms if they have been convicted of a felony.

David McGlynnAs laid out in the indictment.Jack Teixeira was entrusted by the United States government with access to classified national defense information — including information that reasonably could be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if shared.

law and endangered our national security.Teixeira enlisted in the US Air National Guard in 2019 and was granted top-secret security clearance in 2021.Teixeira is charged with sharing information with users on a social media platform he knew were not entitled to receive it.

The 21-year-old was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense secretswearing an orange jumpsuit and rosary beads.

If found guilty on all charges.

3 Teixeira’s next court hearing is scheduled for Aug.Republican-led congressional committees probing Hunter Bidens personal finances and his foreign business dealings.

In a closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in November.a vindictive or selective prosecution arising from an unrelenting pressure campaign beginning in the last administration.

Biden to advance President Trumps partisan ambitions.The motion filed in Delaware is part of Hunter Bidens defense in a federal trial to which he pleaded not guilty to three felony counts related to his purchase and possession of a firearm in 2018 when he was a drug user.