Gorden,
I doubt if he lied. Just your population alone down there would give you an edge on us. I help out at the permit class from time to time and maybe it was we have a higher percentage of permits for the population. I just don't remember for sure but there is another class soon and I will try to find out. If things there are like here, every person that can buy and carry a gun is doing so. That is the only businesses we have around here that are doing well and they can't keep guns and ammunition in stock.
And we do deny several as some of the people would be more dangerous to themselves with a gun than to any adversary.
Ron