The Gutowski Files: Virginia Looks To BAN Popular Rifles and Magazines
Active Self Protection Podcast
John Correia and Mike Willever
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 24 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 legislation that is making it's way through the halls of the Virginia state house that would ban large swaths of popular rifles and shotguns and would also ban magazines with more than 10 rounds capacity AND include provisions that would require residents to turn in existing magazines to the government.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all right again, welcome back to this pneumonia edition of the Gautowski file starring me, who I pretty sure has pneumonia. |
| 0:25.7 | We've been battling that in my house for, I don't know, it feels like a month now. |
| 0:29.8 | And Stephen Gatowski, Stephen is the founder-owner and editor-in-chief over at the reload.com. |
| 0:35.6 | That's the reload.com, as always. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm going to try to talk too much. As always, there is a hyperlink in the description. Stephen, it's been a slow week for |
| 0:43.8 | news. We're going to try to find something to talk about, right? Yeah, no controversy at all this week. |
| 0:48.5 | Not much to talk about. Yeah. So, you know, as you can imagine being a retired special agent with Homeland Security Investigations, which is in fact half of immigration and customs enforcement, the other half, not the immigration half, but the investigative half. I have really actively been trying to avoid talking about any of this stuff because it's just, it's a little bit close to home. |
| 1:13.4 | And, you know, passions run high with this sort of thing. |
| 1:16.3 | We're going to delve into that a little bit here today, not a lot, but a little bit. |
| 1:27.5 | And as much as it relates to another story we're going to talk about, in case you haven't heard, folks, the Democrat Party is apparently fully in control of the state of Virginia. |
| 1:32.5 | They have the governor, lieutenant governor, the attorney general, and I believe Stephen, |
| 1:36.5 | pretty much the Senate and the House of Representatives there as well. |
| 1:37.0 | Is that accurate? |
| 1:37.4 | Yes. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, they have total control of the state government here for the first time. And it's been six years, I think it was the last time. And so that has, |
| 1:49.5 | you know, we had in Virginia, we have off-year elections. I live in Virginia, for those who don't |
| 1:53.4 | know. But we have off-year elections. So there was an election last year, 2025, and the Democrats did |
| 2:01.7 | very well. It was only the House of Representatives and the governorship and the other offices |
| 2:06.5 | you mentioned that were up in that cycle. So the Senate was not up. The Senate remains a two-vote |
| 2:12.9 | majority. And that's kind of what Virginia has been for the last decade or so. |
| 2:24.3 | You'll have one party control either house, but usually by very thin margins, one or two votes, |
| 2:30.3 | and that's what it was going into this election, but it's kind of a blowout election for the Democrats this year. |
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