{"podcast":{"title":"Active Self Protection Podcast","slug":"active-self-protection-podcast-4227519","podcast_index_feed_id":4227519,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/68223b6c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://activeselfprotection.com/podcast/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/17370739/17370739-1629217019569-e89a88f77e274.jpg","author":"John Correia and Mike Willever","episode_count":376,"summary":"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. Title music by Jorikbasov.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-16T12:17:54.653524+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/active-self-protection-podcast-4227519"},"episode":{"title":"The Gutowski Files: New VA AR-15 Ban Will Be Tough To Reverse","slug":"the-gutowski-files-new-va-ar-15-ban-will-be-tough-to-reverse","published_at":"2026-03-19T22:22:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/active-self-protection-podcast-4227519/the-gutowski-files-new-va-ar-15-ban-will-be-tough-to-reverse","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/active-self-protection-podcast-4227519","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mike-willever/episodes/The-Gutowski-Files-New-VA-AR-15-Ban-Will-Be-Tough-To-Reverse-e3gn614","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/68223b6c/podcast/play/117200356/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-19%2F8f299544-650a-eb3a-146c-39a22c82c4a0.mp3","summary":"On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss why it will be a tough road for Virginians who are hoping to see the state's new AR-15 ban reversed for a number of reasons and why it's possible that it could be decided by the Supreme Court eventually. 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","meta_description":"On this installment of the Gutowski Files we sit down with investigative reporter Stephen Gutowski of thereload.com and discuss why it will be a tough roa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1355,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/active-self-protection-podcast-4227519/episodes/the-gutowski-files-new-va-ar-15-ban-will-be-tough-to-reverse/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/active-self-protection-podcast-4227519/the-gutowski-files-new-va-ar-15-ban-will-be-tough-to-reverse.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}