The Gutowski Files: Potato Silencers and HUGE SCOTUS Cases Pending

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 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 a Maryland appeals court case and a Hawaii SCOTUS case both regarding the so-called "Vampire Rule" and a man successfully registered a potato as a silencer with the BATFE.

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

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0:00.0	Well, I'll write again. Welcome back yet again to the Gatowski file starring our very own, Stephen Gatowski. Stephen is the founder, owner and editor-in-chief over. That reddeter in chief, dear God. She's editor-in-chief over at thereload.com. The reload.com. As always, there is a hyperlink in the description. Go check that out and considering considering getting membership.
0:37.6	Steve, my apologies for the insult right off the bat. It's been two weeks. I'm sorry.
0:41.3	You know, maybe I should get on Reddit. I'm not really active on there, but it can't be any worse than the social media sites I am active on. The whole world's on fire and everything sucks.
0:50.5	So I apologize, we've been gone for a week, or has it been two weeks for us maybe?
0:54.6	Has it been two weeks?
0:55.3	I'm not sure.
0:55.9	It's been a while.
0:56.5	Time is just a concept. It's just a flat circle. Anyway, so, yeah, some family issues for us. We're working through some sicknesses and stuff, but we're back this week and hopefully back again next week to continue getting these exciting updates
1:11.1	from our friend Mr. Gutowski. Do you want to talk sports at all, sir? Because I've certainly
1:14.7	thought. I mean, it depends on, you know, do the fans enjoy hearing us suffer?
1:21.4	Maybe. You know, I feel like some of them must, right? Like if they have to listen to us,
1:25.8	brag about our teams and they don't like our teams,
1:28.5	maybe we should talk about when they're terrible.
1:32.1	But all the Philly teams are, no one's happy right now in Philadelphia.
1:36.3	I would say that much about what these teams are up to all of them.
1:40.1	No one's happy.
1:40.7	I mean, maybe the Sixers, I guess, sort of doing okay,
1:44.8	but Flyers, Phillies, Eagles, all, no one's happy with anything. Well, you made the postseason in the NFL. That could be a lot. But now John Harbaugh is in our division. Isn't that fun? Oh, God. Yeah, that'll be great. We don't need the Giants to be good.
2:01.6	Who wants the Giants to be good?
2:03.6	Nobody. Oh, God. Yeah, that'll be great. We don't need the Giants to be good.
2:01.6	Who wants the Giants to be good? Nobody. People from New Jersey, where they're from? The Giants are from New Jersey, right? Last time I'm not, Jack? All right, getting them, moving on. We're going to alien all the Giants fans. So real quick, before we start on the main topic we want to talk about today, you had a guy on your podcast this past week.
2:20.2	And I just want to talk about today. You had a guy on your podcast this past week.
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