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    <title>The Weekly Reload Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Ben Owen”</title>
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  <title>NRA Wants DOJ Rights Restoration Changes; Buffalo Mass Shooting Victims Score Court Win</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>Host Stephen Gutowski and Reload Reporter Ben Owen discuss the National Rifle Association's push to change the Trump Administration's gun-rights restoration plan.</itunes:subtitle>
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  <title>DOJ Drops Gun-Rights Restoration Plan, Ends Legal Fight Over Pistol Brace Ban</title>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <description>Reload reporter Ben Owen and I discuss the new Department of Justice gun-rights restoration rule they proposed late last week. We also look at its decision not to appeal a Fifth Circuit ruling against the pistol brace ban. And Ben talks about his time at the National Journalism Center as well as our recent range day. 
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