Welcome to distributed security Wyoming!

My mission in federal service was secure transportation of  "precious cargo" - nuclear weapons, components and materials.  Since 2019, my mission has been the safety and security of another precious cargo, closer to my heart: our children and their schools and educators, at risk from mass shootings, which are a classic low probability, high consequence threat.

More than half the states in America have provisions in law allowing concealed carry of firearms in public K-12 schools. In Wyoming, school districts are authorized by law to regulate concealed carry by employees and volunteers who meet specified standards, and since July 1, 2025 any visiting Wyoming citizen with a valid Wyoming concealed carry permit can also be legally armed in the schools.

Distributed Security Wyoming has, since 2019, provided firearms, security, and tactical training for school district employees and volunteers, meeting and exceeding all the requirements of Wyoming statutes and school district policies. These district personnel are, along with a handful of school resource officers, the last line of defense against the active shooter threat - when all other efforts to predict, prevent, or disrupt have by definition failed.  The protection of innocent life, when all other measures have failed, is our uncompromising goal.

We also offer  security analyses, threat and vulnerability assessments, site surveys, and moderated tabletop training exercises.

 School shootings are almost always planned and prepared in advance, with intimate knowledge of the target. They are not impulse crimes. They are most often committed by people with detailed knowledge of the school, for instance current or former students, parents, or staff. They will know in advance about the school's security features and procedures, and will plan to defeat or circumvent them. The one thing they should never be allowed to know is how many staff members are carrying concealed weapons, who they are, and where they are at any given time. That uncertainty has enormous deterrent value - a conclusion based both on logic and on experience, because no school shootings have occurred in schools that had school staff members carrying concealed firearms. They just don't come. We aim to deter this threat by readiness to defeat it.

Armed school staff are present every day, capable of responding to a shooting incident in the first few minutes, when all the deaths and injuries typically occur, and before even the fastest police response. Most school shootings are over within 5-10 minutes, which is also, historically, the average police response time to these incidents. During that time, there is an average of one more victim every 6-8 seconds, unless the shooter stops of his own accord or encounters effective, armed resistance.

Our trainers are all former military and law enforcement personnel with directly applicable experience. Our live fire and scenario-based training is tailored to the specific audience - educators with or without prior firearms experience - and based on analyses of school shootings and their perpetrators. Our clients are Wyoming public school districts, and we adapt our curriculum, schedules, and choice of training facilities  to their needs, circumstances, and specific policy requirements.