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Mayors Against Illegal Guns Deletes Member List from Website

January 19, 2014

“The full coalition members roster is no longer posted on the Mayors Against Illegal Guns [MAIG] website,” David Codrea points out at examiner.com, “and the disappearance happened right after Gun Rights Examiner questioned why Michael Bloomberg was still listed for New York City and pointed out that his successor, Bill de Blasio, had not yet committed to joining the group.” David reckons the removal of the list of MAIG mayors is down to political antagonism. Or simple site maintenance. I reckon MAIG’s finally figured out that it’s not a good idea to maintain an online resource for gun bloggers to check whenever a mayor goes off the rails and, say, kidnaps a man at gunpoint. An event which also coincides with the list’s disappearance. FYI: saf.org offers a handy chart of 15 MAIG Mayors gone wild.

31 COMMENTS

Paul53 Old gringo January 19, 2014 At 14:06

Delete it? Or maybe just updated it? Either way works for me.
- JeremyR January 20, 2014 At 00:07
  
  Kind of what I was thinking, the new list is accurate, or at least I hope it is.
John January 19, 2014 At 14:10

They don’t want anyone to know who supports them yet it’s quite acceptable for a newspaper to publish the names and addresses of CCW permit holders.
- Jeff the Griz January 19, 2014 At 14:11
  
  This^
  - Jus Bill January 19, 2014 At 15:41
    
    OH YES!
Mack Bolan January 19, 2014 At 14:12

By the way, now that Bloomberg is out of office, is the MAIG site still registered and located on NYC, tax payer funded servers?

Didn’t Dirk so some digging on that? Maybe some follow up is in order?

If so, maybe someone in NYC should be filling a law suit.
- Dirk Diggler January 19, 2014 At 18:10
  
  JUstice Watch beat me to it. They filed a FOIA and got about 450 pgs of docs. Go to snowflakesinhell.com blog and they have a link to the justice watch link to read the docs. Interesting stuff.
- Jeff January 19, 2014 At 18:49
  
  No, it has been moved out of NYC owned IP blocks and the domain registered via Domains by Proxy.
  
  However this doesn’t mean that MAIG may not still be being maintained by NYC IT staff, or using exernal resources from NYC servers – e.g. site search capability.
Ralph January 19, 2014 At 14:15

Now that MIAG deleted their list, it’s up to the voters to delete their mayors.
Frank Masotti January 19, 2014 At 14:17

Here is your list from October 2013.
http://web.archive.org/web/20131107052513/http://www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org/html/members/members.shtml
- Jeff the Griz January 19, 2014 At 14:25
  
  Gotta love the interwebs, nothing truly disappears. ***Hi Amy at the NSA, tell your family I said Hello***
- Bob January 19, 2014 At 15:34
  
  If they took down the list in an attempt to hide the information, that indicates they know as much about how the Web works as they do about how firearms works. Or the Constitution.
ST January 19, 2014 At 14:17

Probably a good idea.I hear the FBI dislikes it when their corruption suspect list is posted on a public webpage , case confidentiality and all that jazz……
BTinAfghan January 19, 2014 At 14:41

Membership is down due to members being arrested for illegal use of guns. It could never be to hide their membership in an election year. I am sure they are above that. (did that sound sincere)
- William Burke January 19, 2014 At 16:04
  
  Since I can’t think of an “illegal use of guns”, I’ll assume you meant “use of illegal guns”.
  - jwm January 19, 2014 At 16:16
    
    Robbery, murder, accessory to rape. I can think of all sorts of illegal use of guns.
    - William Burke January 19, 2014 At 16:38
      
      It was supposed to be a joke. A failed one, evidently.
    - jwm January 19, 2014 At 19:37
      
      My sense of humor is suspect. I think Monty Python is funny.
    - Cliff H January 19, 2014 At 21:12
      
      Monty Python is not a real person.
    - jwm January 19, 2014 At 23:35
      
      Monty Python is several real people. What they’re not is a large constrictor type snake. They’re also not a dead parrot.
      - William Burke January 20, 2014 At 07:59
        
        A dead NORWEGIAN parrot!!
TommyNV January 19, 2014 At 14:46

They hide their membership but it was perfectly fine for New York newspapers to post the names AND addresses of registered gun owners both online and in print???
PeterC January 19, 2014 At 15:15

They are merely protecting their members’ Fifth Amendment rights. (sarc)
Jus Bill January 19, 2014 At 15:43

Bloomberg is getting ready to make Shannon post it on the MDA site.
CK in CA January 19, 2014 At 17:59

Someone should gather the statistics on how likely a MAIG member is to commit a crime versus a CCW holder.
- BTinAfghan January 19, 2014 At 19:07
  
  Since they are all elected officials I would say including corruption charges it would be quite high.
- William Burke January 19, 2014 At 21:35
  
  Politician or non-politician?
Dustin Eward January 19, 2014 At 21:23

waybackmachine.org
cubby123 January 20, 2014 At 01:08

Bozo’s against illegal moms
Yoel Grauberg January 20, 2014 At 07:26

Myrtle Beach SC Mayor joins MAIG, tries to explain away why a redneck supports gun control in a redneck town quickly becoming a liberal hellhole, with the high crime, taxes, survelliance and other hallmarks that a troubled city exhibits.

http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=953663
Soccerchainsaw January 20, 2014 At 09:27

“Mr. Mayor, are you now, or have you ever been a member of MAIG?”