The Gutowski Files: New DOJ Civil Rights Division 2A Office
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 30 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 DOJ announcement of a new office within the civil rights division dedicated to protecting the gun rights of "law-abiding" citizens.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/second-amendment-section
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| 0:00.0 | Well, already, and welcome back yet again to the Gatowski file, starring our very own, Stephen |
| 0:22.9 | Gatowski. He is the owner, founder, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. As always, there is a |
| 0:28.3 | hyperlink, not a link, it's a hyperlink to the reload.com in the description. Click on that |
| 0:34.7 | and go over and check out what they have to offer. It's a fantastic site. |
| 0:52.0 | Do consider becoming a member. Stephen, how are you, my friend? I'm doing all right. How are you? Not too bad. Are we going to delve into sports talk at the end of this? What do you think? I should never talk about it again, but we'll... I feel like we should. You can't only talk about it when it's good. but I don't know. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't know what the people want. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, I went to lunch today down the road and they had TVs on mute on like ESPN or NFL |
| 1:00.7 | network and it's just Stephen A. Smith and some other guy, it was muted, but you can tell |
| 1:05.9 | they're yelling at each other about whether or not Jalen Hurd should be done. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm like, what are we talking? Oh, my talking? I'll give us thoughts on that at the end. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, we'll get to that later. |
| 1:15.9 | In any rate, all right, so we're going to talk about a couple of stories over at the reload. |
| 1:20.4 | The first of which is actually involves the most recent podcast they had over at the reload, |
| 1:24.4 | which is by as available at the reload and on all your |
| 1:28.1 | finer podcast outlets and on YouTube, so check that out. |
| 1:32.0 | And the podcast was about the Firearms Research Center receiving a $1 million federal grant. |
| 1:37.8 | And you spoke with Ashley. Help me out. |
| 1:40.9 | Hiblinsky. |
| 1:41.7 | Yes, thank you. |
| 1:42.8 | About that. |
| 1:43.7 | What did you guys talk about? |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, she's the director of, one of two directors of the Firearms Research Center at the University of Wyoming, which is a relatively new institution out there, started in 2023. |
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