The Gutowski Files: VA House REJECTS Some Of Gov. Spanberger's Gun Restrictions
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
4.9 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 28 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 follow up on last week's discussion of Virginia's bill proposing expansive firearms restrictions and discuss the legislature rejecting some of the key changes that Governor Spanberger requested when she sent the bills back. Also Stephen and Mike talk about the DOJ's position on the reclassification of marijuana as it relates to gun ownership.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, welcome back yet again to the Gatowski file, starring our very own Stephen Gatowski. |
| 0:23.2 | He is the owner, founder, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. |
| 0:27.9 | As always, there is a hyperlink in the description. |
| 0:30.4 | Do click on that and go check it out. |
| 0:32.7 | Thereload.com is doing something I think no one else is doing. |
| 0:36.3 | Stephen and his team are to lane all of |
| 0:38.6 | their own doing very unique brand of Second Amendment and firearms related journalism. |
| 0:44.1 | Doing something I think that's not flashy, it's sane, it's sober. |
| 0:48.0 | There's a ton of people doing quote unquote firearms journalism, but I think most of those |
| 0:52.8 | places are trying to do gotcha, grabby headlines, |
| 0:56.6 | and sort of partisan stuff. Stephen does down the middle, sane silver reporting that I think |
| 1:01.9 | no one else is doing. So he does depend on his membership dues to fund that important work. |
| 1:06.4 | So go over there and consider getting a membership. I would appreciate it. Stephen, how are you, |
| 1:09.8 | sir? Good. We're actually, it's our fifth anniversary. So we're having a fifth anniversary sale. |
| 1:14.8 | We're redoing our launch sale of 30% off for the first year. So we don't do say, we do sales maybe |
| 1:20.5 | once in a little while. And so it felt appropriate to go back to your 2021 prices, which I'm sure everybody would like to do for |
| 1:29.4 | for everything at this point. But it's as a day you're possible to do that at the reload right now. |
| 1:36.0 | So it's five years going strong or going pretty well. Like we're not going to conquer the world |
| 1:42.9 | or anything. But I think we've stuck to our mission as you laid it out there. And I'm pretty proud of some of the work we've been able to do. Very good. So, go check that out, ladies and gentlemen. So, Stephen, last week we spoke about the, I think, I think is draconian the right word. Some of the gun legislation that was sent from the legislature in Virginia, |
| 2:01.8 | your home state, well, currently your home state, not your original state, but your home state now, |
| 2:06.4 | that was sent the legislature over to Governor Spanberger's desk. She sent it back with some |
| 2:11.7 | wish list items she wanted to have done. We talked about that last week, and it was sent back, |
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