The Gutowski Files: The Confusing Stance Of The DOJ On Gun Policy
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 17 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 what The Reload calls the schizophrenic nature of the DOJ's current stance on guns and the 2nd Amendment.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all ready, gang, welcome back once again to the Gatowski files, files, |
| 0:23.2 | starring our very own Stephen Gatowski. |
| 0:25.1 | He is the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. |
| 0:30.3 | There is always a hyperlink in the, I cannot talk today. |
| 0:34.1 | In the description, how are you, my friend? |
| 0:40.0 | I'm doing all right. How are you doing? I don't know man i might be having a stroke we'll see we'll see how this progresses throughout our time we've |
| 0:43.5 | been talking for almost an hour and as always folks let your heart not be troubled we have |
| 0:47.8 | solved all the world's problems in our in our hour long pre-brief so yeah off the record though |
| 0:52.7 | so we can't share any of the insights yeah it's all it all top secret. I agree you. It's all very important stuff. So there is a, there's a lot to talk about, most of it involved with the DOJ. There's several articles and an analysis piece, which is a member exclusively over at the reload. You should get a membership, by the way, if you haven't done that already. |
| 1:11.8 | All about the DOJ and a sort of, |
| 1:15.3 | to borrow from the analysis piece's headline, |
| 1:18.7 | schizophrenia, if you will, |
| 1:20.2 | over at the DOJ about gun policy. |
| 1:23.1 | And you had Costas Moros on the podcast. |
| 1:26.9 | Talk to us about that first. |
| 1:28.5 | Yeah, well, he's a gun rights lawyer for the Second Amendment, |
| 1:31.8 | but also he wrote a couple pieces this week that I think really get at what I was talking |
| 1:38.1 | about in that analysis piece you referenced, which, you know, is the Department of Justice |
| 1:43.9 | and it's really divergent moves on gun policy. |
| 1:49.0 | On the one hand, they'll do things like threaten a new lawsuit against Virginia |
| 1:54.6 | if the governor signs the assault firearms ban that had passed here. |
| 2:03.5 | You know, there's Harvey Dillon, who runs the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, sent a letter to the governor and said, |
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