The Gutowski Files: Connecticut's AR-15 Ban UPHELD in Appeals Court Decision

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

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4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 28 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 a recent 2nd Circuit three-judge panel decision upholding Connecticut's "assault weapons" and high capacity magazine bans and then we talk about the USAF reinstatement of the Sig M18 (P320) pistol to its ranges and personnel as well as details of a their investigation into the pistol.

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, already, gang, welcome back yet again to the Gatowski file, starring our very own Stephen Gatowski.
0:23.7	Stephen is the founder, owner and editor-in-chief, also the editor-at-large, also the...
0:29.0	We talked about that last week.
0:31.1	Over at the reload.com, that's the reload.com.
0:34.1	It is, of course, always there is a hyperlink in the description of this episode.
0:37.9	If you'll check that out and consider getting a membership.
0:40.1	Stephen, how are you, my friend?
0:41.7	I'm doing all right.
0:42.9	A little tired from doing TV late last night, but otherwise I'm hanging in there.
0:48.5	Yeah, fun fact.
0:49.3	So I'm on vacation starting next week and then at the conference a week after that. So we will have a Gutowski files next week talking about Steven's experiences, working over at CNN as a contributing. What's the term? Just contributor. Just the contributor, yeah. So that'll be next week. We'll be dark the week after that. But don't worry, we will be back. Do not fear. And we'll able to talk about football again, which is very exciting, I have to say. Yes. And they signed Terry. They did. So just a nine of sports talk up front. They signed Terry. We're in 96 million dollar three-year contract, which is a lot of money. But the fun fact is it's $40 million guaranteed plus a $30 million signing bonus.
1:29.7	The rest of it is all performance incentive-based.
1:32.3	So he will be, as Ian Rappaport said,
1:34.9	he will have a clear head and a full bank account coming into the season,
1:37.9	which I love.
1:38.9	The oldest team in the league, though.
1:41.9	Well, to be the oldest team to win a Super Bowl is what it's going to be.
1:44.8	Stand by.
1:45.5	The youngest quarterback, oldest team. So we'll see all. Yeah, it could be a good mix. It worked last year, so we'll see. It could be. Yeah, if you got Bobby Wagner and Vaughn Miller there in the defense in the back's room, motivating the younger man, I'm very excited for it. All right, moving on. I should say it worked up until the NFC championship and then we don't need to talk, I guess, anymore.
2:02.7	Right.
2:03.7	I have a feeling that's going to be a rematch this year. So that'll be, that'll be fun. That would be exciting. All right. So moving on to second amendment related stuff. There's two stories we're going to talk about. The first one is an article by Stephen Katowski over at the reload. the title of which is Air Force Bomber Command reinstates six hour pistols.
2:20.7	We've been talking about this question. an article by Stephen Katowski over at the reload. The title of which is Air Force Bomber Command reinstates SIG-Sour pistols.
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