Yes it is a good thing. I was wrong when I said much ado about nothing because for me I have a concealed handgun permit.
I doubt the sheriff did any serious investigating anyhow.
In the Nashville shooting case a few days ago the sheriff was saying he had not been notified by the shooters doctors that he/she was under medical treatment. So I’m not sure the sheriff has the resources to investigate every applicant.
The churches that have a Christian School in connection were looked on as “educational property” by the lawmen and there was already a prosecution of a member of Gospel Light Baptist Church (so I heard TIFWIW) in Walkertown for simply having a pistol in the church parking lot on Sunday! The gen assembly here allows those churches to allow concealed carry as other churches around the state have since the last revision of the CHL law. Liberal Methodist Churches and Unitarian Universalists will still post their property against weapons.