The Gutowski Files: Rhode Island "Assault Weapons" Ban And More

Active Self Protection Podcast

John Correia and Mike Willever

True Crime

4.9 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 33 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 appeals court decision regarding federal bans on gun possession in school zones and then we talk about a recently passed bill banning "assault weapons" in the state of Rhode Island.

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 ready, gang, welcome back.
0:19.6	Once again, it's that time of week for the Gattowski files, starring our good friend, Stephen Katowski. He is the founder, owner, editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. That's the reload.com. As always, there is a hyperlink in the description. You go check that out and do so, please, consider getting a membership. Stephen relies on the membership dues that come in to fund is important work. Steven, how are you? I'm doing all right. How are you? I'm not too bad. Is there any Phillies-related news? Anything you want to get off your chest right off the bat? Let's do that now. Well, they just won their series against the Mets and are now in first place in the NL East. So that's pretty good.
0:54.6	The Mets are doing really well this year, right?
0:56.5	They're second place in the NL East.
0:58.3	They're doing good, not as good as the Phillies.
1:03.8	And that's with Bryce Harper being out for like the last 10 games and maybe more.
1:09.9	But they've been surprisingly good during that stretch, which is,
1:13.6	well, as I said, surprising.
1:16.1	Yeah, for those who don't know, having Bryce Harper out is like, imagine Jerry Rice misses a
1:20.3	bunch of games for the 49ers. It's not the same team anymore. It's a different team. So,
1:24.4	that's impressive. Well, congratulations, Go Orioles. Okay. So this
1:28.3	week we're going to talk about a couple things. First of all, you had a podcast, the weekly reload
1:33.3	podcast with Charles Cook for National Review talking about federal gun, gun free zone, school zone challenges.
1:40.8	So talk to us about that really quick. Would you guys talk about? Yeah. Well, Charles is great. He's, he's been on the show a couple of times now. And there was a
1:49.3	recent ruling out of a federal appeals court that upheld the constitutionality of the Federal
1:58.1	Gun Free School Zones Act, which puts like a thousand-yard gun-free zone
2:04.8	around all schools.
2:06.9	And, you know, the court found that that was not in conflict
2:13.1	with the Second Amendment because there was
2:14.8	a historical tradition of, well, actually, they,
2:18.7	interestingly, they didn't use, like,
2:20.4	sensitive places, which is usually what you'll see.
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