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Active Self Protection Podcast

The Gutowski Files: New York State FORCED To Grant CCWs For Non-residents

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9542 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 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 an ongoing legal battle involving a Florida lawyer and 3D printed firearms details on the internet and then we discuss an encouraging series of wins for out-of-state or non-resident CCW issuance.

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 yet again to the Gatowski Fow starring our very own Stephen Gatowski. Stephen is the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. As always, there is a hyperlink in the description to go to the Relo to check that out. Consider getting a membership. Steven, how are you, sir? I'm doing pretty well. How are you? Not too bad. So for those who are watching on the app, please excuse my hideous pre-cancer, disgusting scar thing going on over my left eye. Hopefully a few more weeks that will be gone. But we caught it in time, as Stephen pointed out, which is the important thing. So we get that dealt with. Go see your dermatologist, folks, if you, old like me. So there's a couple of things we want to talk about this week. But first, I do want to ask about your most recent podcast guest. An attorney from Florida, it has to do with 3D guns. Talk to us about that real quick. Yeah, we had Matt LaRosea on the show. He's been on our show a couple of times before.

1:16.8

He's a prominent gun rights lawyer in Florida and something of an activist as well. He is involved with a thing called the Gatelag, which is essentially it's just a community of people who posts 3D printed gun files and guides on how to make your own firearms,

1:31.3

hobbyists essentially, who are interested in that kind of stuff. And perhaps unsurprisingly,

1:38.5

at this point in time, this has led to some legal trouble for Matt and a number of the other people involved with the catalog.

1:49.7

In that California, which recently passed a law to criminalize and then also make available civil remedies or civil suits over the sharing of 3D printed gun files essentially.

2:08.8

I mean, it's basically they've, California makes it so that residents of the state can't make their own firearms unless they get a license or and unless they

2:20.7

serialize them um and so to to augment that uh effort they have now tried to make it uh harder for

2:32.6

people to legally share gun files with, to sort of an aiding

2:38.6

at a betting. I don't think that's the, this is not a criminal case to be clear. This is civil action

2:44.2

by the Attorney General of California against Matt and a number of other people associated with the catalog,

2:52.6

where essentially they're accusing them of making these files available for people in California

2:56.9

to illegally make their own firearms.

3:00.5

And so, or at least, you know, they're sharing them with people who don't have that

3:03.7

legal ability in the state.

3:06.7

So, you know, essentially they're trying to use a civil suit to reach across the country

3:12.1

from California to Florida to effectively enforce their law against this Florida resident,

3:21.3

Matt La Rocierre, who's not, he doesn't like go to California to share his

3:26.6

designs and files with people in the state. He posts them on the open internet. And for that

3:34.7

reason, that's why he got sued. And now he's also sort of counter suing the state in Florida court.

3:42.4

So there's a whole jurisdictional fight going on there as well.

3:45.5

I thought he was a really interesting guest.

3:48.5

Obviously, he's involved directly.

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