Hey (Improbable) Joe, Where you goin' with that gun in your hand?
Sorry, I had to do that!
Welcome fellow Dem gun enthusiast to the forum. I think your stand on guns has more to do with where you live as opposed to party affliation. Up here in Maine the crowd I hang with is a mix of Democrat, Independent, and Republican with around 40-50% being Democrat and the rest split between the other two. What we seem to have in commen is almost all of us are gun owners.
One of my buddies is a raging GW Bush hater with the bumper stickers and everything but he has an arsenal in his house and all he talks about is guns, music and politics.