The Gutowski Files: Biden Pistol Brace Rule Gone...Or Is It?

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss the rather confusing recent series of events surrounding the Biden era SBR pistol brace rule issued by the ATF.

Active Self Protection exists to help good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people in all walks of life to more effectively protect themselves and their loved ones from criminal violence. On the ASP Podcast you will hear the true stories of life or death self defense encounters from the men and women that lived them. If you are interested in the Second Amendment, self defense and defensive firearms use, martial arts or the use of less lethal tools used in the real world to defend life and family, you will find this show riveting. Join host and career federal agent Mike Willever as he talks to real life survivors and hear their stories in depth. You'll hear about these incidents and the self defenders from well before the encounter occurred on through the legal and emotional aftermath. Music: bensound.com

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0:00.0	Well, all right again, welcome back yet again to the Gatowski Fowski file, starring our very own Stephen Gatowski. He is the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. As always, there is a hyperlink in the description. And I spoke in error last week. I said that in the hyperlink, I included the WWW for your old folks, but it turns out I didn't, so I lied to you, and now it can't be trusted anymore. Stephen, how are you, my friend? I'm doing all right. We're kind of, we're almost matching, but at least color-wise, for those on the app, the active self-protection app, we got green shirts on. Yours is an Asp shirt. And then mine is a Hershey Park. I survived the Super Dober Looper shirt. Yeah. I have fond memories of Hershey Park as a kid. That was a lot of fun. I grew up in Maryland, so not too far away from where you're from. Since we're talking to people on the app who are watching, and thank you if you are doing that, I do have in my hot little hand, the, if I can get it
1:14.7	to focus, the Act of Self Protection Special Pants Brigade patch that we send to law
1:19.8	enforcement officials who John and or I deem worthy of the Special Pants Brigade. If you
1:27.1	don't know what that means,
1:28.7	we send it out to officers who demonstrate, uh, extreme bravery under dangerous circumstances to get
1:35.9	the job done. And most recently, I, we sent one out to an officer who prevented,
1:41.2	a guy with determination of pursuit, decided to take a woman or child hostage
1:46.7	into their home and that lasted about 2.8 seconds before this guy blazed through the door and took care
1:52.0	of business. So he got a patch recently and he wears it on his uniform, which is pretty cool, actually.
1:56.7	I support giving law enforcement acknowledgement when they're doing good stuff.
2:03.8	It seems like a positive idea to me.
2:06.3	Although I was saying before we went on,
2:08.5	my cousin is a cop in Haberford Township.
2:14.2	We also went over the whole, there's Havertown,
2:16.7	and then there's Haverford Township. Havtown is in Havreford Township. They're two separate things. Anyway, he's a SWAT guy up there. And, you know, I would be great if he got this, but I think it would be, it's sort of like appearing on your podcasts, your other podcasts. I don't really want to be a guest on that one, right?
2:35.7	And I don't know that I really want my cousin to ever be in the special Pants
2:40.7	Brigade because of what it requires to,
2:43.7	requires a very bad day before you are able to reap the reward of the badge.
2:52.4	Indeed.
2:52.7	So we talked for a good 90 minutes prior to us hitting the record button.
2:56.4	The topics range from where Jason Kelsey lives and whether or not he should build a fourth house.
3:02.8	He lives in Haver Ford Township, by the way.
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