The Gutowski Files: Texas Gun-Free Zone Law Upheld
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 33 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 recent ruling in Texas where a Trump-appointed judge upheld a law enacting gun free places and we delve into why the state didn't even send a representative to defend the law. Additionally, Stephen talks about his recent experience instructing journalism students on the function and proper handling of firearms.
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| 0:00.0 | All ready, gang, welcome back once again to the Gatowski file starring our very own Stephen Gatowski. |
| 0:23.5 | He is the founder, owner and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. |
| 0:27.2 | And as always, there is a hyperlink in the description. |
| 0:30.8 | Stephen, how are you, my friend? |
| 0:32.2 | I'm doing pretty well. How are you? |
| 0:34.1 | Not too bad. |
| 0:35.3 | So I want to lead with something you did recently, which I absolutely, no joke, absolutely adore, which is you were helping to educate some journalists on firearms-related matters. Now, we, I think we secretly enjoy poking fun at journalists when they don't, and politicians as well, when they sort of don't |
| 0:55.2 | understand how guns work, when they put up infographics like USA Today did, and we like to make |
| 1:00.9 | fun of the facts, they have no idea how guns work. And instead of making fun, you're out there |
| 1:05.0 | trying to kind of solve the problems. So talk to us about what you were doing and how that went. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah. So on Friday, I did a class and range day with a bunch of, really, reporter interns for the National |
| 1:20.6 | Journalism Center, which is something we do really every semester. |
| 1:26.4 | We do it basically twice a year. |
| 1:29.6 | We've been doing it for a little while now. |
| 1:31.2 | It's been super successful. |
| 1:32.7 | One of the most anticipated parts of the program, |
| 1:35.2 | actually, is from what I understand what I've been told. |
| 1:38.7 | And I think it's been really fruitful. |
| 1:40.4 | But basically, the way it works is we take these young reporters to arrange here in |
| 1:51.5 | Virginia, and we have a classroom portion that I teach, where I go through some of the |
| 1:59.8 | common topics that a reporter might run into in |
| 2:04.6 | their career, if they're going to be reporting on guns, and then some of the common |
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