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All Nine Yards takes a look at a recent round of belt tightening by the City of Orlando, which apparently  included laying off 400 city employees. This did not include the MAIG coordinator.

Sean Caranna over at the blog All Nine Yards has a fantastic find about MAIG activists getting bankrolled by the City of Orlando. The person they appear to have hired is a long time gun control activist, with a history with the Brady Campaign, Florida anti-gun groups, and MAIG. The position is funded partially (the … Continue reading “MAIG Activism Funded by Taxpayers”

A Denver Gazette article on MAIG getting nasty, and a failed attempt to get the Mayor of Colorado Springs to join the group. Some of you may know that Dave Kopel’s father, who is a legend in Colorado politics, died recently. This is of note from MAIG’s ED: Mark Glaze, executive director of Mayors Against … Continue reading “MAIG Getting Ugly?”

It’s pretty clear that MAIG has been on a campaign to get media outlets to write about the pending bill HR1523, since they have been parroting MAIG talking points. According to tracetheguns.org, a project of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the missing gun reporting requirement and allowing local communities to enact gun laws are two of … Continue reading “MAIG Fighting Back”

Miguel discovers another case of mayors who are on the MAIG list, but claim to have never joined the organization. This isn’t the first time this has been uncovered.

Did you know that political interests of New York City were absolutely vital to Durham, NC voters in 2011? You didn’t? Well, the voters of Durham probably didn’t know that either. [Mayor Bill] Bell’s year-end campaign-finance report to the county Board of Elections showed that he banked $4,000 – nearly a third of the $12,550 … Continue reading “MAIG Mayors Paid to Represent NYC”

Jacob is reporting on Mayor Mike and Mayor Mumbles appearing in locally targeted Super Bowl advertising time for MAIG. When evaluating how serious a threat our opponents actions represent, I try to ask myself whether I’d think NRA was wasting their money if they were to do the same thing. I think if NRA were … Continue reading “MAIG to Run Super Bowl Ad”

The Mayor of Milwaukee, and MAIG Mayor Tom Barrett says that HR822 is a bill fit for the nation’s gun traffickers: Gun traffickers with a permit to carry concealed weapons from another state would be able to easily travel to our state with a variety of firearms in tow, and police would be unable to … Continue reading “MAIG Mayor Makes Ridiculous Argument Against HR822”

For those of you familiar with the Wikipedia culture, it occurs to me that MAIG’s Wikipedia page is pretty poor. Wikipedia pages are supposed to be factual, not promotion material for the organization. Some changes I would suggest: It should be clear they are an organization that advocates gun control. Don’t let them get away … Continue reading “Some Guerrilla Tactics to Use Against MAIG”

Matthew asks an interesting question to ponder in the comments to one of Sebastian’s threads that I thought was relevant enough to warrant its own post. If there’s a benefit to having MAIG as the remaining real threat it’s that Bloomberg, I think, has a “wrong” view of how most states actually work due to … Continue reading “Is MAIG Just a Bunch of Mayors Overplaying Their Hand?”