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Active Self Protection Podcast

The Gutowski Files: LA Sheriff Loses Court Challenge On CCWs

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9542 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 36 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 federal court decision regarding a suit brought by gun rights groups against the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department by gun rights groups stating that the LASD has been slow-walking concealed weapons permit applications.


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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, all right again, welcome back once again to the Gatowski files, starring our very own, Stephen Gattowski. He is the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. As always, there is a hyperlink in the description below. Check that out. Do click on that and go consider giving him a membership. Stephen relies on his members' dues to fund as important work. You've got an intern over there now. We're going to talk about one of your intern stories today. How are you, sir? I'm doing all right. How are you? Not too bad. So how does one score, say there's a young, a young budding journalist out there who wanted to come intern for the reload one day. How would he or she go about doing that, I wonder? Well, they could always just reach out through the website, but mainly we get our interns from a program called the National Journalism Center, which is run by the Young America's Foundation.

1:05.6

And we actually are going to talk a little bit about the class that I teach that group,

1:11.2

which just had recently here.

1:14.2

But that program is where we get most of our interns.

1:18.7

And so we have a summer intern this year who has been doing a pretty good job, I think.

1:25.2

And we've talked about him a couple times, Ben.

1:27.6

And he's actually going to be co-hosting our news update this week over on our podcast

1:35.2

because Jake Vogelman, our contributing writer, is getting married this week.

1:39.8

So he will be indisposed.

1:42.0

Shout out to Jake.

1:43.1

That's very exciting.

1:43.9

It's great news. So it's happiness all the way around. Shout out to Jake. That's very exciting. It's great news.

2:01.6

So it's happening is all the way around. Benjamin Owen is killing it. So far, and I've been very impressed with his reportage. Is that a word? I've heard that word somewhere. Yes. Sure. So if I say so. Yeah, but we're actually going to talk about one. I think you're thinking of repertoire, but yes.

2:02.7

It could be.

2:01.6

As a musician, I do have one of them. if I say so. Yeah, but we're actually going to talk about one. I think you're thinking of repertoire, but yes.

2:02.7

It could be.

2:06.2

As a musician, I do have one of those, FYI.

2:07.1

So, fun fact.

2:14.1

So we're talking about an article dated today, July 23rd, 2025 by Benjamin O' and federal judge, Greenlights, L.A., concealed, carry, concealed carry permit delayed lawsuit so I'll

2:19.0

murder this so you can fix it the idea here being basically that like in so many other places

2:24.9

the governing body that decides who does and doesn't or what qualifies you to get a concealed

2:30.1

weapons permit is sort of dragging their feet making things more difficult than they need to be for

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