web02.fireside.fm Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:29:11 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The Weekly Reload Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Ukraine” https://thereload.fireside.fm/tags/ukraine Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0400 A podcast from The Reload that offers sober, serious firearms reporting and analysis. It focuses on gun policy, politics, and culture. Tune in to hear from Reload Founder Stephen Gutowski and special guests from across the gun world each week. en-us episodic A podcast featuring The Reload's Stephen Gutowski Stephen Gutowski A podcast from The Reload that offers sober, serious firearms reporting and analysis. It focuses on gun policy, politics, and culture. Tune in to hear from Reload Founder Stephen Gutowski and special guests from across the gun world each week. no gun news, gun politics, firearms, policy, politics, culture, gun culture, gun ownership Stephen Gutowski gutowski@thereload.com The Push to Codify Ukrainian Gun Rights (Ft. The Counteroffensive's Tim Mak) http://thereload.fireside.fm/the-push-to-codify-ukrainian-gun-rights-ft-the-counteroffensives-tim-mak 155819ac-e3f0-44f3-a964-06fc6083392b Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0400 Stephen Gutowski full Stephen Gutowski Host Stephen Gutowski and guest Tim Mak discuss efforts to install gun-rights protections in Ukranian law. 37:53 no This week, we've got a guest coming to us straight from the middle of a war zone. Tim Mak joins the show from Kyiv, Ukraine. He's an experienced war correspondent who has worked for leading news outlets and founded his own independent publication just over a year ago to cover the war in Ukraine on the ground. The Counteroffensive publishes original reporting from inside the country and recently profiled the man behind an effort to install gun-rights protections in the nation's law. Mak said the effort has made significant progress. Legislation to legalize civilian gun ownership has already made it through a first read in the Ukranian parliament. He said it has a lot of support within President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party. Much of that support is driven by Maryan Zablotskiy, who talks a lot like American gun-rights activists and has cultivated relationships inside the American conservative movement. But Mak said he's not the only one in Ukraine whose opinion on gun ownership has been changed after facing the brutal reality of the Russian invasion. Still, he noted not everyone agrees, and there is an active debate over what regulations on civilian guns should remain. Click this link for your free trial from our sponsor The Dispatch: https://thedispatch.com/join-offer-reload/?utmsource=newsletter&utmmedium=email&utm_campaign=reload0624 Special Guest: Tim Mak. guns, gun politics, second amendment, 2nd amendment, gun news, stephen gutowski, jake fogleman, tim mak, ukraine This week, we've got a guest coming to us straight from the middle of a war zone.

Tim Mak joins the show from Kyiv, Ukraine. He's an experienced war correspondent who has worked for leading news outlets and founded his own independent publication just over a year ago to cover the war in Ukraine on the ground. The Counteroffensive publishes original reporting from inside the country and recently profiled the man behind an effort to install gun-rights protections in the nation's law.

Mak said the effort has made significant progress. Legislation to legalize civilian gun ownership has already made it through a first read in the Ukranian parliament. He said it has a lot of support within President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party.

Much of that support is driven by Maryan Zablotskiy, who talks a lot like American gun-rights activists and has cultivated relationships inside the American conservative movement. But Mak said he's not the only one in Ukraine whose opinion on gun ownership has been changed after facing the brutal reality of the Russian invasion. Still, he noted not everyone agrees, and there is an active debate over what regulations on civilian guns should remain.

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Special Guest: Tim Mak.

]]> This week, we've got a guest coming to us straight from the middle of a war zone.

Tim Mak joins the show from Kyiv, Ukraine. He's an experienced war correspondent who has worked for leading news outlets and founded his own independent publication just over a year ago to cover the war in Ukraine on the ground. The Counteroffensive publishes original reporting from inside the country and recently profiled the man behind an effort to install gun-rights protections in the nation's law.

Mak said the effort has made significant progress. Legislation to legalize civilian gun ownership has already made it through a first read in the Ukranian parliament. He said it has a lot of support within President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's party.

Much of that support is driven by Maryan Zablotskiy, who talks a lot like American gun-rights activists and has cultivated relationships inside the American conservative movement. But Mak said he's not the only one in Ukraine whose opinion on gun ownership has been changed after facing the brutal reality of the Russian invasion. Still, he noted not everyone agrees, and there is an active debate over what regulations on civilian guns should remain.

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Special Guest: Tim Mak.

]]> Supreme Court Upholds Domestic Violence Restraining Order Gun Ban; Biden Bets on Gun Control http://thereload.fireside.fm/supreme-court-upholds-domestic-violence-restraining-order-gun-ban-biden-bets-on-gun-control 262ad3a1-2108-421d-94a6-52d4693c1ecc Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:00:00 -0400 Stephen Gutowski full Stephen Gutowski Host Stephen Gutowski details the new Supreme Court Second Amendment ruling and President Biden's doubling down on gun control in the 2024 election. 31:27 no I detail the latest Supreme Court Second Amendment ruling on this week's episode of the News Update. Then I talk about President Biden's new gun control ad and the risk vs. reward of his strategy in centering his call for new firearms restrictions as the election nears. I also go over an on-the-ground report from The Counteroffensive out of Ukraine about a new effort to bring the war-torn country its own version of the Second Amendment. Follow this link for your free trial at The Dispatch: https://thedispatch.com/join-offer-reload/?utmsource=newsletter&utmmedium=email&utm_campaign=reload0624 guns, gun politics, second amendment, 2nd amendment, gun news, stephen gutowski, supreme court, rahimi, joe biden, donald trump, ar-15, assault weapons ban, ukraine I detail the latest Supreme Court Second Amendment ruling on this week's episode of the News Update. Then I talk about President Biden's new gun control ad and the risk vs. reward of his strategy in centering his call for new firearms restrictions as the election nears. I also go over an on-the-ground report from The Counteroffensive out of Ukraine about a new effort to bring the war-torn country its own version of the Second Amendment.

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]]> I detail the latest Supreme Court Second Amendment ruling on this week's episode of the News Update. Then I talk about President Biden's new gun control ad and the risk vs. reward of his strategy in centering his call for new firearms restrictions as the election nears. I also go over an on-the-ground report from The Counteroffensive out of Ukraine about a new effort to bring the war-torn country its own version of the Second Amendment.

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]]> Reload Members Q&A http://thereload.fireside.fm/reload-members-q-a e30c4635-27eb-40af-9e82-cb75cef7615d Mon, 14 Mar 2022 05:00:00 -0400 Stephen Gutowski full Stephen Gutowski Reload Founder Stephen Gutowski and Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman answer questions from Reload members on a wide range of gun topics. 1:06:23 no We're doing something different this week. Instead of interviewing an expert on a single topic, we're letting Reload members interview us on a bunch of different topics. It's our first Q&A episode! Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman and I answer questions on a wide range of stories. What is going on with gun laws and armed civilians in Ukraine? How could it affect American gun politics? How much control does Wayne LaPierre have over the NRA board? What's happening with President Biden's pistol brace ban proposal? How does grandfathering play into his plan? What would it take to get a national reciprocity bill? When could gun owners see carry bans or AR-15 bans come to an end? What effect could the Supreme Court's gun-carry case have on that timeline? How might that same Supreme Court ruling affect demand for guns in deep blue states? Plus, what's the best way to improve media coverage of gun issues throughout the country? guns, gun politics, second amendment, 2nd amendment, gun news, stephen gutowski, jake fogleman, nra, ukraine, supreme court We're doing something different this week.

Instead of interviewing an expert on a single topic, we're letting Reload members interview us on a bunch of different topics. It's our first Q&A episode!

Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman and I answer questions on a wide range of stories. What is going on with gun laws and armed civilians in Ukraine? How could it affect American gun politics?

How much control does Wayne LaPierre have over the NRA board?

What's happening with President Biden's pistol brace ban proposal? How does grandfathering play into his plan?

What would it take to get a national reciprocity bill? When could gun owners see carry bans or AR-15 bans come to an end? What effect could the Supreme Court's gun-carry case have on that timeline? How might that same Supreme Court ruling affect demand for guns in deep blue states?

Plus, what's the best way to improve media coverage of gun issues throughout the country?

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Instead of interviewing an expert on a single topic, we're letting Reload members interview us on a bunch of different topics. It's our first Q&A episode!

Contributing Writer Jake Fogleman and I answer questions on a wide range of stories. What is going on with gun laws and armed civilians in Ukraine? How could it affect American gun politics?

How much control does Wayne LaPierre have over the NRA board?

What's happening with President Biden's pistol brace ban proposal? How does grandfathering play into his plan?

What would it take to get a national reciprocity bill? When could gun owners see carry bans or AR-15 bans come to an end? What effect could the Supreme Court's gun-carry case have on that timeline? How might that same Supreme Court ruling affect demand for guns in deep blue states?

Plus, what's the best way to improve media coverage of gun issues throughout the country?

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