Wrong.
The next time a CCW vote is on the net, watch the debates between the two parties. The Minnesota Senate vote was on FR. You should have taken the time to watch it for a real eyeopener. Ask someone like Dead Corpse or Jdege what it was like.
The vote on the Missouri CCW law is going to be next. Do a little research.
There were Republicans who opposed shall-issue in Minnesota, but not many of them. Of the four Minnesota GOP Senators who voted against shall-issue carry in 2001, only one returned to the Senate in 2003, and she was refused endorsement by the district GOP convention, and ran as an Independent.
There have been some Democrats who were strong supporters of shall-issue, but even so, they voted for a rabidly anti-gun Senate leadership. The GOP leadership was openly pro-gun. Not all of them truly see the light on the issue, understanding how fundamentally important it is to ensure that we maintain an armed citizenry, but some do. And the rest understand the political reality.
The shall-issue bill passed in Minnesota because over the last seven years, through three election cycles, the pro-carry advocates turned out people at the caucuses, the primaries, and the general elections, and put pro-carry candidates in office.
For the most part, you are right on this one. Where you are wrong is in thinking that the Republicans are the most pro-2A. That would be the Liberatarians.
Didn't Alaska just vote in Vermont style carry? 2 down 49 to go....