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I've always been one. My whole family as well. My grandfather was die hard liberal and owned lots of guns. (He also liked to remind me back when Texas was a lot more blue).
I went to gun store recently to buy parts for my first AR build. I got some weird looks at first, but once the guy realized I knew my shit, he opened up.
Genuinely curious about when the idea that liberals are anti-gun started. 2008? 1990's?
It's a good question.
I've always lived in a part of the country where there really weren't anti gun democrats. People still voted Republican for guns though. I think it was because of just how powerful the NRA was and how much effort they spent demonizing democrats and endorsing republicans. I'm not sure when it started. I think it must have been before my time lol. I've never really know the NRA to be anything other than a republican fundraiser.
I think the worst of it is that the anti-democrate sentiment is still so high in modern gun culture for no real good reason.
It's not an accident. At the end of the day the NRA exists because the dynamic is they can deliver votes, and that gives them power they can turn into money. They deliver votes by riling people up. If they were genuinely interested in protecting 2A rights, there's plenty of in-between they could go for, but that doesn't get people riled up. The guy in vegas didn't use any loop-hole, and shouldn't have passed his background check; he just was never added to the database. There are plenty of laws which aren't achieving their intent for one reason or another but we all need to abide by anyway. If the NRA was true to their mission, this is the lowest hanging fruit they could address. But they aren't a 2A organization, they are a vote delivery machine first, foremost, and sometimes only.
I'd say 80s and by the mid-90s it was assumed that anybody not voting right wing hated guns. A lot of lobbyists here in the US probably take the blame for that.