About this episode

The episode discusses Virginia's rejection of certain gun restrictions proposed by Governor Spanberger and the implications for gun ownership related to marijuana reclassification.

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. 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…

People in this episode

Host: Mike Willever

Guest: Stephen Gutowski

Topics covered

• gun restrictions
• Virginia legislature
• self defense
• Second Amendment
• marijuana reclassification

Keywords

• gun restrictions
• Virginia
• self defense
• Second Amendment
• marijuana
• DOJ
• firearms

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: thereload.com, DOJ

Places: Virginia

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