The Gutowski Files: Red Flag Lawsuit and Canada's AR-15 Ban

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

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🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss a recent federal court ruling about red flag laws and then we talk about how the Canadian government is baffled as to why it's citizens won't turn in their rifles.

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, all right again, welcome back yet again to the Gatowski files, starring our very own Stephen Gatowski.
0:23.7	Stephen is the editor, founder, and owner over at the reload.com, and a known Philadelphia sports fan.
0:30.6	Steven, how are you?
0:31.7	I'm doing well. How are you?
0:33.2	Bryce Harper just said a home run before we came on to film those books.
0:36.4	There you go.
0:37.3	I just watched a really interesting. I'll plug the channel. I think it's a really funny channel on YouTube called That's Good Sports. Yes. Yeah, the sort of a comic take on sports. But he just, his latest one that came out today, Wednesday, July 9th, is about the trade. Did you see it? And you're sitting there. Yes. I've already watched the video talking about. Parsons trade. Yeah, it was really interesting. So you go check out that sports and let them know active self-protection set you if you go over there. So we are going to be talking about an article written by Jake Fogelman, contributing writer at the reload, the headline of which is federal judge tossed a suit against sheriff and county for
1:12.4	refusing to issue to use red flag law before a mass shooting. And Stephen and I talked about this
1:17.9	before you hit the record button. And one of the things he mentioned is, you know, this has been
1:21.1	done before another, in another way at places like Parkland and Ovalde, where it was basically a failure
1:27.2	to act. But I think this one's significantly different because itde where it was basically a failure to act.
1:27.9	But I think this one's significantly different because it's a, it's a failure to act before the fact. Right. What do they call it ex post facto? What do they call it when it's before the fact? There's got to be a legal term for that. My Latin is not good. So I'm not sure. Pre post factor. Anyway, no, post means after. Anyway, so Jake wrote this article, and I thought it was really interesting and worthy of discussion
1:50.0	for that reason.
1:51.2	I'm not sure I've ever heard of a case where a government official agency was targeted
1:57.1	with a lawsuit for failing to enforce a red flag lob.
2:01.8	But maybe there's been another case.
2:03.5	If you've heard another case like that, leave us a comment and let us know.
2:06.3	So, Steven, what's your take?
2:08.1	Yeah, well, as you know, as a former law enforcement official yourself,
2:13.7	police generally in the United States don't have an actual legal duty to protect people,
2:22.2	in a general sense.
2:23.8	Like, yeah, there are very specific circumstances.
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