The Gutowski Files: New VA AR-15 Ban Will Be Tough To Reverse
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 23 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 why it will be a tough road for Virginians who are hoping to see the state's new AR-15 ban reversed for a number of reasons and why it's possible that it could be decided by the Supreme Court eventually.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all ready, gang, welcome back once again to the Gutowski file starring our very own, Stephen Gatowski. Stephen is the founder, owner and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. That's the reload.com. Do check the description for a hyperlink, as the old folks would say. I haven't included the WWW in there, in case you're wondering. She will definitely go to the right side if you click on that. |
| 0:38.8 | Steven, how are you, my friend? |
| 0:40.1 | I'm doing pretty good. How are you? |
| 0:42.0 | Not too bad. So I was looking through over at the reload for what story we might want to talk |
| 0:47.6 | about today. There's a lot of stuff over there to talk about. It was hard to pick one thing. |
| 0:51.1 | But I happened to notice a new name among the contributors. Alan Beck, |
| 0:57.4 | is that a newer person? Did I know something? Well, Alan actually, he's written for us a little bit in the |
| 1:03.1 | past. He's not a contributor technically. He is actually the gun rights lawyer who just argued at |
| 1:09.7 | the Supreme Court in the Hawaii case that we |
| 1:11.9 | talked about a while ago. And so he does a number of different gun rights cases all around the |
| 1:16.1 | country. And so sometimes, you know, if he has a particularly interesting, you know, |
| 1:22.4 | argument that he's making or analysis that he wants to present, he'll send over a piece for us. And that's, |
| 1:29.4 | that's what happened here. He did, he's got a lawsuit going on basically traveler protections |
| 1:35.1 | for people with firearms and the history of that based on some research that that he's done. |
| 1:42.4 | And so he kind of took what he had, |
| 1:44.8 | you know, |
| 1:45.8 | done in terms of the research for his lawsuit. |
| 1:48.5 | And he crafted that down into a more digestible analysis piece that, |
| 1:53.1 | you know, |
| 1:53.6 | I helped him edit and we, |
| 1:54.9 | we put that up on the site. |
| 1:56.7 | So yes, |
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