The Gutowski Files Ep. 23: NRA Verdict and More On The CA Gun Ad Case
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
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🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss the verdict in the NRA corruption trial and developments in the California firearms advertising case.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all right again, welcome back to the Gattowski Files, starring Stephen Gatowski. |
| 0:09.3 | Stephen is the founder, editor-in-chief, lead writer, CEO over at the reload.com, as you well know. |
| 0:18.6 | For new viewers and listeners, |
| 0:22.7 | Stephen does have his own site. |
| 0:23.7 | It is called The Reload. |
| 0:26.5 | Go check that out when he get a chance and consider getting a membership. |
| 0:30.2 | He relies on his membership dues to fund his important work. |
| 0:33.7 | Now with his hair being grown out, this is jealousy talking. |
| 1:11.7 | He needs a lot more hair product, folks, a lot more expensive to maintain. It takes a lot of money. So, Stephen, how are you, sir? I'm doing pretty well. How about you? How are you doing? Not too bad at all. I just, I had a day. Steven's been running around all day doing reporter stuff and I've been doing podcast stuff. And I was in the middle of a really interesting and sensitive interview when my SD card told me that it was full even though it wasn't. And then it refused to work. And yeah, that's how my day's been going. But no complaints. I love my, I love my job. So over at the reload, I think it came out yesterday or the day before. Stephen and Jake Fogelman talk in depth about the NRA case, |
| 1:28.4 | but can you just touch on that real quick, kind of what's going on at the NRA, and we can send folks over to the reload to get the rest of it. Yeah, yeah, we did a whole podcast episode on sort of the details of the verdict, which came in on Friday, Friday at like 6 o'clock. Did I call that or did I call that? That's Jerry's for you, man. They clearly did not want to come back on Monday. |
| 1:32.4 | So they were like, we're going to finish this up now and get out of here. |
| 1:37.6 | So that was, I think, yeah, we had talked about that and predicted that might happen. |
| 1:42.4 | I, you know, not surprised. |
| 1:45.5 | But the, you know, I think bottom line, the big ticket items were all bad for the NRA and |
| 1:51.6 | its and its former leadership, current and former leadership. |
| 1:54.9 | The jury found that the NRA did not properly safeguard its charitable assets as an organization, |
| 2:04.3 | and that Wayne LaPierre, the longtime head of the NRA, who was actually still CEO and |
| 2:10.3 | executive vice president through about halfway through this case. |
| 2:14.2 | He announced his resignation right before it started, but didn't go into |
| 2:19.1 | effect about halfway through. He was found to have done $5.4 million worth of harm to the |
| 2:26.1 | organization by diverting funds towards his personal expenses for things like private flights for his |
| 2:31.9 | family and himself. |
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