The Gutowski Files: VA Gov. Spanberger SIGNS New Gun Restrictions Into Law
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 34 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 the new restrictive gun laws that Virginia Governor Spanberger just signed into law and the many legal challenges that are sure to follow.
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 | All right again, welcome back to the Gatowski files. |
| 0:20.7 | Let's see if I can get through this whole intro without mispronouncing or stumbling over any words. |
| 0:26.3 | I am your host, Mike Willover, and as always with us, the founder and owner of the reload.com, Stephen Gatowski. |
| 0:33.1 | Stephen, how are you, my friend? |
| 0:34.5 | I'm doing well, and you did it. |
| 0:37.3 | I did. I did. Amazingly enough, we hit the record button. Stephen and I had our normal pre-brief, and of course, a moment I hit record, Rocco the world's friendliest Chooey and he started barking at nothing, as he is very good at doing. Stephen, is there any Philadelphia sports news we should talk about where we get started, sir. |
| 0:54.9 | The Phillies are on an incredible heater. |
| 0:56.9 | We should save it for the end, though, |
| 0:58.1 | because I want to talk more, like, in depth about it. |
| 1:01.4 | I don't want to anger anyone who doesn't care about the sports stuff. |
| 1:06.2 | Well, we haven't had any comments recently about sports talk, |
| 1:08.7 | so we'll see that for the end. |
| 1:09.8 | All right. |
| 1:10.1 | So there's a couple things you want to talk about over at the reload. |
| 1:13.6 | Number one is you did land a big fish. |
| 1:16.3 | The ATF chief counsel, Robert Leiter, was on the podcast. |
| 1:19.9 | Just give us a little tease about what you guys talked about so folks can go over there and check that out. |
| 1:25.4 | Yeah, absolutely. |
| 1:26.6 | Lighter, for those who don't know, was a professor at George Mason University |
| 1:31.7 | who studied, you know, Second Amendment issues and regulations before he went into the |
| 1:38.5 | administration to run the ATF. |
| 1:40.0 | He actually had been on our show and written a piece for us describing how he thinks the Trump administration and particular gun rights activists should approach the ATF in the second term. |
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