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Bryan & Jessica Proctor, Jason Hosaka, Huard Harral and Erin Rodriguez are Certified Texas Department of Public Safety License to Carry Instructors.
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Bryan & Jessica Proctor, Donnie Camp & Ted Cooley are Certified Texas Department of Public Safety License to Carry Instructors, NRA instructors and level III/IV Security instructors.

09/03/2026

She had been told by a well-meaning relative that she was not strong enough for a semi-automatic, and she believed it for two years.

She was not weak. She was pushing the slide forward with one hand while pulling it back with the other, which is what almost everyone does the first time and which cancels out most of the force you apply. Ten minutes of being shown how to hold the gun close, lock the wrist, and drive with the whole body rather than the fingers, and she was running it herself.

We see some version of this constantly. Someone decides they cannot do this based on one bad experience and a piece of advice from a person who was not paying close attention.

Before you conclude the equipment is wrong for you, let someone watch you use it.

09/02/2026

Officers assume the commission is what gets them hired. It is what gets your application read.

What contract managers screen for after that is depressingly practical: do you show up, on time, in a clean uniform, every scheduled shift. Can you write a report that will survive being read out loud by an attorney. Do you speak to an angry member of the public without escalating. Do you answer your phone.

Almost nobody loses a post over shooting. People lose posts over attendance, appearance, documentation, and attitude — and those four things are entirely within your control from your first day.

Get the certification. Then be the officer a scheduler is relieved to see on the roster. That is what turns a license into a career.

09/02/2026

Most people practice with cheap range ammunition and carry something else entirely, and never fire enough of the second one to know whether their gun likes it.

That gap matters more than the brand argument people have online. Different loads feed differently, recoil differently, and shoot to a slightly different point of aim. A pistol that has run two thousand rounds of range ammunition flawlessly can still choke on the first magazine of something it has never seen.

The fix is unexciting: put at least a box or two of your actual carry load through the gun, from the magazines you actually carry, before you trust it. Then keep practicing with the cheap stuff, because volume is what builds the skill.

Two different jobs. Both of them necessary.

****msTraining

09/01/2026

Ask a training school what they teach and the weaker answer is a list with everything on it.

We teach civilian fundamentals, defensive shooting, License to Carry, and the Texas private security ladder from Level 2 through Level 4. That is the work we do often enough to be genuinely good at it.

What we do not do: long-range precision rifle, competition shooting at any serious level, or anything that belongs to a discipline where we would be a student ourselves. If you ask us for those, we will say so and, where we can, point you at someone who actually does them.

Turning away work is not a marketing strategy. It is just the honest version of expertise — knowing the edge of it and saying where it is.

****msTraining

08/31/2026

A firearm entering a house is a household decision even when only one person is buying it.

The conversation worth having up front is short. Where it will live. Who can open it. What everyone is expected to do if they come across it — including the answer for children, which is not a lecture, it is four words repeated until it is automatic: stop, do not touch, leave, tell an adult. And whether anyone in the house is uncomfortable, because an unspoken objection tends to turn into a firearm that gets stored badly to keep the peace.

None of that requires agreement on politics or on whether the thing should be there at all. It requires everyone knowing the same facts.

Households where this was discussed once, plainly, are the ones that never have a story.

****msSafety

08/31/2026

New shooters blame the sights. Experienced shooters blame the ammunition. It is almost always neither.

Inside seven yards the sights only have to be roughly aligned to keep every round in the center of a target. What actually moves the shot is what your hand does in the final quarter-second — a squeeze that becomes a shove, a grip that tightens all at once, a flinch that starts a fraction before the shot rather than after it.

The way to find out is to have someone load your magazine with a dummy round mixed in and not tell you where. Everything you do wrong shows up on that one, in front of you, undeniable. It is the single most useful diagnostic in shooting and it costs nothing.

Then you fix the trigger, and the sights turn out to have been fine all along.

****msTraining

08/30/2026

By the fourth relay of a long training day, everyone in the building has heard the safety brief three times and could recite it.

It gets given again anyway. Same words, same order, cold line to hot line and back.

Part of that is for the person who joined late, or who was distracted the first time, or who is quietly nervous and needs to hear the rules once more before they feel steady. But most of it is simpler than that: a range works because a group of people who have never met share one set of assumptions, and assumptions decay across a day as people get tired, warm, and comfortable.

Nobody has ever complained about hearing it again. Several people have told us afterward that hearing it again was the reason they felt safe enough to relax and actually learn something.

****msTraining

08/30/2026

Personal protection work is the part of this industry that looks least like the industry.

No uniform. No post to stand at. The job is planning, routes, advance work, reading a room, and being close enough to matter while being unremarkable enough that nobody notices you are there. Most of it is logistics and judgment. The physical skills are the last resort and they are trained precisely so they stay that way.

Level 4 is the Texas certification for it, and it sits on top of a Level 3 commission for a reason — you need the foundation before the discretion makes sense.

If you are already working commissioned posts and the ceiling is starting to feel low, this is the direction most people do not realize is open to them.

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7305 Boulevard 26 Suite# 100
North Richland Hills, TX
76180

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