The Gutowski Files: Virginia Gun Ban Bill Sent BACK To State House By Governor
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 28 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 recent controversial anti-gun legislation in Virginia that Governor Spanberger sent back to the legislature with recommendations for further restrictions.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all right again, welcome back once again to the Gatowski file, starring our very own Stephen Gutowski. |
| 0:23.8 | He is the founder, owner, and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. |
| 0:28.2 | There is, as always, a hyperlink in the description to the reload. |
| 0:32.2 | I recommend clicking on that and getting over there to look at getting a description. |
| 0:37.3 | A subscription to the reload. |
| 0:39.4 | There are many, many benefits. Not only can you get stuff early over there, but you can actually be on the reload podcast. |
| 0:47.3 | Steven, who was on the reload podcast this week? Yeah, this was, we actually are talking about the same topic that we're talking about here. |
| 0:54.4 | So if people want to learn more after we're done with this episode, it'd be a good, |
| 0:58.7 | deeper dive on my podcast this week with the president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, |
| 1:05.5 | Philip Van Cleve, because we're talking in depth about what Governor Spamberger has recommended the legislature do with a number of gun bills. |
| 1:16.1 | And I think we get we go a bit broader and deeper on that show because we have a whole, you know, hour to get into it over there. |
| 1:24.3 | Yeah, definitely. |
| 1:25.4 | I just want to point out, so for those of you don't know, there was a |
| 1:28.2 | recently election in the state of Virginia, they have off-year elections, and they don't |
| 1:33.0 | have a majority in both houses of their legislature that is Democratic, and they have a new governor |
| 1:38.5 | who was a former CIA operative, right? I mean, she was actually a field agent, yeah, |
| 1:43.7 | who kind of ran as a kind of middle of the road, moderate, and as right? I mean, she was actually a field agent, yeah, who kind of ran as a kind of |
| 1:45.8 | middle of the road, moderate and as governing, I would venture to say a little bit more left |
| 1:49.8 | of center. And they have passed what I would venture to say are some of the more restrictive |
| 1:56.4 | anti-gun or gun restrictive laws that I think I've seen in my adult life. |
| 2:02.1 | And they have gone to her desk. |
| 2:04.2 | And in Virginia, |
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