You could say that for the northeast and the west coast, but not for most of flyover country. look at a map, courtesy of jdege, of gun rights/privileges resoration.
The folks you describe are limited to big cities and college towns. The radical left craves gun control. All those states didn't restore gun rights and privileges with just GOP votes.
When Minnesota passed shall-issue, we had a GOP House and a Democrat Senate. The leadership of the Democrat Senate played every underhanded, sneaky, and fundamentally unethical trick in the book, trying to keep the bill from coming to the floor.
Because they knew that when it came to a vote on the floor, there’d be enough pro-gun Democrats to pass it.
And there were.
Never underestimate how strongly the Democrat leadership opposes gun rights, as they oppose every other form of individual freedom and liberty.
But never underestimate the number of Democrats who strongly disagree with their leadership on these issues.