{"id":4955,"date":"2010-12-20T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/12\/20\/bloombergs-mayors-endorse-andrew-traver\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:44","slug":"bloombergs-mayors-endorse-andrew-traver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4955","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg&#8217;s Mayors Endorse Andrew Traver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18457,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.examiner.com\\\/gun-rights-in-national\\\/reports-on-traver-nomination-increase-expectation-tensions&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220509045501\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.examiner.com\\\/gun-rights-in-national\\\/reports-on-traver-nomination-increase-expectation-tensions&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:20:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:20:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Somehow along the way I missed this press release from MAIG. They released it in November with their endorsement of Andrew Traver.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>November 16, 2010<br \/>\nNo. 9<\/p>\n<p>STATEMENT OF MAYORS AGAINST ILLEGAL GUNS CO-CHAIRS BLOOMBERG AND MENINO ON PRESIDENT OBAMA\u2019S NOMINATION OF ANDREW TRAVER AS ATF DIRECTOR<\/p>\n<p>Joint Statement of Coalition Co-chairs Michael R. Bloomberg and Thomas M. Menino:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the more than 500 mayors who have been petitioning for tougher<br \/>\nenforcement of our nation\u2019s gun laws, we commend the President on his nomination of Andrew Traver to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Mr. Traver has dedicated his career to keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, and his nomination to this post as America\u2019s top cop on illegal guns deserves careful and swift review by the U.S. Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About Mayors Against Illegal Guns<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in April 2006, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has grown from 15<br \/>\nmayors to over 500. Mayors Against Illegal Guns has united the nation\u2019s mayors around these common goals: protecting their communities by holding gun offenders and irresponsible gun dealers accountable, demanding access to trace data that is critical to law enforcement efforts to combat illegal gun trafficking, and working with legislators to fix gaps, weaknesses and loopholes in the law that make it far too easy for criminals and other prohibited purchasers to get<br \/>\nguns.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s Press Office (212) 788-2958<br \/>\nMayor Menino\u2019s Press Office (617) 635-4461<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nUPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/gun-rights-in-national\/reports-on-traver-nomination-increase-expectation-tensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Codrea<\/a> at the National Gun Rights Examiner received a very interesting email from a confidential source regarding the Traver nomination. The bottom line is that this nomination is not good for ATF. As the source put it, &#8220;Appointing Traver has f***ed ATF royally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow along the way I missed this press release from MAIG. They released it in November with their endorsement&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2906,1454],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-traver","tag-maig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6063,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}