Well, all right again, welcome back to the Gautowski File, starring Stephen Gatowski.

Stephen is the founder of the reload.com, editor-in-chief, owner of the reload.com, and the host of the weekly reload podcast.

Fun fact, folks, we do read your reviews. We read your comments. And this may sound like I'm talking about sports, but I'm not talking about sports. I'm talking about people talking about the fact that we're not talking about sports. Did you get that last even? Be with me? There you go. We just get more convoluted each episode about this. So real quick, I just want to, we get some comments. I'm going to read these over here. They're off to the side. This from a high G. Flyer, November 30th, thank you so much for not talking sports at the start of the show. I had my finger on the fast forward button to Sippy Head, but didn't have to. You and Steve are both fantastic. And thanks for sparing us that buddy sports talk.

Thank you for the comment. And then someone named me forward slash 43275 says thank you for

putting sports at the end. So we appreciate the comments. We appreciate the feedback.

Stephen, you even got some feedback on your end about this podcast, not talking about sports, right? Yeah. Well, they like that we

talked about sports, the email that I got from a listener who said they weren't a sports guy,

but they like the link too. We don't keep it too long, just a little, you know, just get a little

bit of personality in there. I think it helps. So remember, if you're getting ready to write a negative comment, we are not talking about sports right now, just for the record. That's we want to be super clear. All right, stuff about that. Yeah. So what are we talking about? Well, one of the things we're talking about is you, sir, and this is relevant to this academic community, you've applied for a permit. Talk to us about that. And it's kind of exciting. Something that, you know, 20 years ago when I lived around that area, I never would have occurred to me would even ever be possible. So tell us about what is you going on. You got going on over there. Yeah. I finally was able to put in my application for my DC concealed carry permit. You know,

they changed the law.

DC was kind of a canary in the coal mine situation when it came to these concealed carry laws,

what used to be called may issue laws,

had the subjective standard in them,

which in practice meant that almost nobody could actually get a concealed carry

permit in a lot of these jurisdictions that, like New York and there's about eight other states,

California, Maryland, Massachusetts, so why the sort of deep blue states you'd expect.

That was the subject of the Supreme Court's ruling last year in Bruin, which we will also

get to a little bit later in this episode. But, yeah, before that happened, there was a case called Renb, D.C.

That was basically the same thing where they sued over this type of permitting process that

effectively meant most people couldn't get a permit and um that won and they put in

place a new a new so well actually they used to have a total ban on gun carry in dc i remember you

couldn't even own a gun in your house in dc yeah well that was heller right was about the handgun ban

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