The Gutowski Files: Senate Doubles Down On NFA Items
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 26 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 the budget bill that the senate has received from the house that included proposals to remove the tax stamp on silencers (or sound suppressors) and how the senate GOP is attempting to add short barreled rifles and shotguns as items to be de-listed under the act.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all ready, gang, welcome back, yet again to the Gatowski files, starring our very own Stephen Gutowski. |
| 0:24.5 | Stephen is the founder, owner and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. |
| 0:28.6 | That's the reload.com. |
| 0:30.5 | As always, there is a hyperlink in the notes of this wherever you happen to be watching it. |
| 0:35.3 | Do click on that. |
| 0:36.3 | Go over there and consider getting a membership. |
| 0:38.5 | Steve is doing important work, and he's in a lane kind of like ASP. He's kind of a unique lane that no one else is doing, in my opinion, exactly what he's doing. |
| 0:45.3 | Stephen, how are you, my friend? I'm doing all right. How are you doing? Not too bad. Interesting story this week. |
| 0:51.7 | We actually talked about not a couple weeks couple weeks ago maybe, about the House, |
| 0:56.9 | the budget bill. And they were trying to, under the guise of it being a budget bill, |
| 1:01.1 | there are special things they can do and they tried to do those things. And I think you and I were |
| 1:05.2 | dubious at best. The Senate would, and I think they were only trying for sound suppressors, silencers. And we were kind of like, ah, they'll never get through the Senate. And it looks like the Senate's kind of running with it. The article over at the reload by Stephen Katowski, Senate moves to D-Less silencers, short barrel shotguns and rifles from the NFA in the budget bill. So, you know, I want to jump up and down and go, yay, everything's legal now, |
| 1:30.6 | but that's not the case, obviously. |
| 1:31.9 | So kind of explain to what's going on you. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, so this all started as a provision in the House Ways and Means Committee as part of this |
| 1:40.7 | reconciliation bill. |
| 1:42.4 | And actually, I guess we should start at the very beginning here, right? |
| 1:46.6 | And we'll understand why this is important and why this particular strategy, |
| 1:54.4 | we're talking about it so much and focusing on it so much. |
| 1:58.7 | Because, you know, there have been bills in Congress for a long time to try and, you know, partially repeal the National Firearms Act, which governs things like the suppressors and short-bail rifles and machine guns and destructive devices, grenades and missiles and things like that. |
| 2:20.0 | And so mainly the standalone bills have focused on silencers, |
| 2:23.9 | the Hearing Protection Act, |
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