One late afternoon, in February 2021, I was driving my Mini Cooper on an unremarkable stretch of I-95 en route to Wilmington, trying to make sense of a police report and a firearm transaction record that I had just obtained. The document was connected to a bizarre incident in which Hallie Biden, the widow of Beau Biden, had apparently tossed a .38 revolver belonging to her brother-in-law and paramour, Hunter Biden, into a trash can that happened to be across the street from a school. At the same time, I was working on a tip that Secret Service agents were trying to retrieve the paperwork from the store that sold Hunter the weapon in 2018, presumably in an effort to sweep the incident under the rug.