The Gutowski Files Ep. 28: Gun Sales Fall & Anti-Gun States Back Off Post Bruen
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2024
⏱️ 22 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 fall of firearms sales year over year and the fact that many anti-gun states are backing off of restrictive laws post-Bruen.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all ready, again, welcome back to the Katowski file, starring our very own Stephen |
| 0:10.5 | Katowski. He is the founder and editor at large. No, that's not a thing. He is the founder and |
| 0:15.8 | owner and editor and chief custodian over at the reload.com. The reload.com could give them a look if you are lamenting the lack of sane, sober down the middle reporting on the firearms industry, the NRA, second amendment, court related news, all that stuff's covered over there. And it's covered in a straightforward fashion, which is why we love him. Stephen, how are you, sir? Large editor might work. editor at large usually means you don't like, I think, I think, you know, this is, even though I worked in the industry for, this is one of those things where there's terms sometimes that are like kind of vague. Nebula. At large. I think it just means like you don't actually work there day to day. |
| 0:56.0 | And so you contribute sometimes. |
| 1:01.9 | That's the feeling I get from it whenever I see the term used in, you know, news reporting. But large editor, sure, editor-in-chief, all these are kind of made-up titles when you run your own publication. |
| 1:09.2 | So whatever you want to call me. |
| 1:12.3 | Right. I'm, well, I'm the grand pooh-bah of the ASP podcast then. There you get myself a new title. |
| 1:17.5 | Back when, back when they bought barrels by the gallon, you know, as the old saying goes, the ink, |
| 1:23.9 | you know, barrels of ink by the, the, no, ink by the barrel. I'm 37. I'm not 65, so I don't actually |
| 1:31.1 | wasn't around for these areas. But then I think that these terms actually had different meanings. |
| 1:36.3 | You know, publisher was a specific role that was different from, you know, my publishing is |
| 1:41.3 | pressing publish on a WordPress document on the the on the website so it's a |
| 1:47.6 | little different than you know when they literally would uh roll presses i mean some some people still |
| 1:53.1 | do that and it is fun to be in print every once in a while yeah stop stop the presses like if you |
| 1:57.9 | stop the presses to somebody 30 they have no idea what you're talking about, probably. Right. Even though we still have presses, right? I was in The Spectator magazine, not that long ago. An actual physical print magazine copy of reporting I did on the NRA. So that's, it's always fun. It's always a little thrill. Yeah, most of the time. I'm old enough to remember eight tracks and cassettes and 45s. And I don't know. I kind of miss the idea that I own a physical thing rather than, you know, having Apple music or Spotify. And then if you don't pay them, then you don't have your music anymore, you know, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not a boomer, I swear. I'm on the cover of time, not that long ago. |
| 2:37.8 | And, don't have your music anymore, you know, I don't know. Yeah, yeah. I'm not a boomer, I swear. I'm Jenna. It's on the cover of time, not that long ago. And that's definitely cooler than, I think having the actual magazine is cooler than going to the website to look at it for sure. Speaking of websites, over at the reload.com, the aforementioned reload.com, there is an article just |
| 2:51.4 | published moments ago. So this will be out by the time you hear this. It is by our very own |
| 2:56.3 | Stephen Gutowski, and the title is, the headline is, gun sales fall in March, very direct, |
| 3:00.6 | to the point. So gun sales have been falling in general. The article talks about it in detail. |
| 3:07.4 | Why is that important, |
| 3:08.5 | Stephen? Why should we care one way or the other? Yeah, well, gun sales were down. I think it was, |
| 3:13.6 | what, 7% or so between March 20 to 24, you know, last month and March 2023. So year over year, |
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