The Gutowski Files: Is The ATF Is HELPING Gun Owners?
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 37 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 some of the new rules laid out by the BATFand explain how they could actually streamline the gun buying process and fundamentally change the way people purchase firearms.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all right again, welcome back once again to the Gatowski file, starring our very own Stephen Gatowski. |
| 0:23.6 | And as you know, because I say it every week, Stephen is the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. |
| 0:30.4 | As always, there is a hyperlink in the description. |
| 0:33.7 | Steven, how are you, my friend? |
| 0:35.1 | I'm doing all right. |
| 0:36.0 | How are you? |
| 0:36.8 | Not too bad. |
| 0:37.4 | As always, we have an extension extension Extension? I can never quite get through the intro with Steve without, without mispronouncing something. We have an extensive pre-brief. We talk for a good hour or so, but all manner of things, some of them related to the show, some not. You know, we talked about Costco, Cosmic Crisp Apples. |
| 0:56.0 | Stephen did lament the |
| 0:58.0 | cost of fast food. Now, it eats a lot |
| 1:00.1 | of fast food, but how it's just better to stay |
| 1:02.1 | home and air fry once in a while. |
| 1:04.4 | With all that, said, Stephen, are there any important |
| 1:06.3 | Philadelphia sports-related things you want to talk about at the end |
| 1:09.9 | of the show. |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah, well, both the Cinderella story, so to speak, in Philly Sports and the Sixers and the flyers ended in a quite different way from the movie Cinderella. |
| 1:25.4 | They both got swept in the second round. |
| 1:28.0 | They both beat their rivals in seven games in the first round. That was very exciting. And then I think everyone, |
| 1:34.0 | you know, the expectation was they were not going to win the second round against much better |
| 1:37.9 | competition. And that came true. But I don't know that everybody was expecting both of them |
| 1:43.0 | to get swept. So I don't know. It's expecting both of them to get swept. |
| 1:46.6 | So I don't know. |
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