Tecnico Protective Services

ARE YOU PREPARED TO PROTECT, class dates for 2026! Get you training in for this year.

PREPAREDNESS IS THE KEY TO PROTECTION! Get training, for when it counts and when it's needed. We can help.

Get training from the best, our instructors are some of the best at what they do; Army Airborne Pathfinder and retired Federal SRT/DCT Tactical Commander.

Standard $75, First Responders and Seniors $65, Active Duty and Veterans $55. $10 dollar range fee is not included for all.

Active duty military will get an extra discount based on the new Concealed Carry guidelines for military bases. $45.00 groups of 6 or more get an extra discount.

**Free day is for those unfamiliar with fi****ms. Its a day to learn feel, and shoot a handgun. $10 range fee.

2026 training dates:

Can I get the following;

May 2 (not confirmed)
10
31 License to Carry

June 6 Shooting (free day with instructors) half day
14 License to Carry

July 4 Basic Rifle
19 License to Carry

August 9 License to Carry
16 Shooting (free day with instructors) half day
30 Advanced License to Carry (half day)

Sept. 5
13 License to Carry
20 Shooting (free day with instructors) half day

Oct. 3 Basic Rifle
11 Shooting (free day with instructors) half day
25 License to Carry

Nov. 8
22 Shooting (free day with instructors) half day
29 License to Carry

Basic Concealed Carry
Advanced Concealed Carry
License to Carry
Basis Pistol
Advanced Pistol
Basic Rifle
Tactical Rifle
Tactical Flashlight
DoD Stop the Bleed
ARC First Aid for Severe Trauma
Refuse to be a Victim
Women's safety and fundamentals
Security Officer (lvl II, III & IV)
School Safety Cert
First Responder cr

The dates listed are our dates for 2026. We can do special request.

If you dont see it, tell us what you want. DM or call 915-412-6524

https://www.aflcmc.af.mil/NEWS/Article/4451297/hegseth-authorizes-off-duty-service-members-to-carry-private-fi****ms-on-instal/

Get certified by a state approved LTC Instructor, retired army and federal law enforcement.

$50.00 per person or group rates for 6 or more.

Hegseth authorizes off-duty service members to carry private fi****ms on installations Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing military installation commanders to allow War Department personnel to request to carry privately owned fi****ms while in their nonofficial

This is liberal logic and those who never train. We all need medical training, Remember our Walmart shooting.

Come see me!

“I don’t need to take training. My brother-in-law was in the Army and showed me how to shoot”

Really? Yes, you do need training, shooting with buddies at the wall is not training.

Constitutional Carry (CC)

CC is great but Texas has firearm laws, self defense, Use of Force, when to you can shoot, when you can't etc.

If you Shoot someone you are still responsible for knowing Texas Laws!

I recommend every one get a License to Carry (LTC). It teaches you the law and provides basic handgun training.

Get Realistic Training

The harrowing incident that played out in an Omaha, Nebraska Walmart on April 14, 2026 before 10 o’clock in the morning was eerily similar to one that occurred less than two years ago in North Olmsted, Ohio. In both cases the victims were three-year-old children.

Also in both of the above cases, the attackers were mentally unstable women who had been arrested previously and determined to be dangerous and unstable, but released back into the public regardless. Both female monsters stole large kitchen knives to use as weapons (no background check or waiting period).

After the Ohio incident, an appeal was made to parents to arm themselves to be prepared to defend their children at a moment’s notice. We put forth the question as to whether or not you would have the skill/ability and confidence to make a lifesaving shot if given only a few seconds to do so.

Don't forget the Walmart shooting!

Fortunately for the mother and child in Omaha, the child will live and the attacker is dead. The image taken from the Omaha Police Department bodycam showed the critical second where an officer had to make a life saving shot to prevent a monster from murdering a child. The prima facie lesson from both of these incidents would seem to be that responsible citizens need to be armed at all times. However, as a person engaged in martial fi****ms training, another lesson was glaringly obvious, yet it seems to be largely ignored.

Lesson: Downrange Training is Critical

Thanks to everyone on planet Earth now having a camera on their phone and the desire to be an internet star, during the last several years we’ve seen videos of both good and bad fi****ms training and been treated to thousands of comments in regards to what we thought we saw.

One of the most famous and oldest controversies occurred circa 2009 when a video surfaced of Jay “Nightmare” Gibson crouched down ahead of the firing line taking what are lovingly referred to as “hero shots” with his 35mm DSLR camera. The internet melted down and self-appointed training experts wet their panties nationwide. Interestingly, none of the aforementioned persons ever seemed to have a problem with photographers being downrange during the various industry sponsored gun games. It was going on then and continues to happen.

Whether the person ahead of the muzzle is a photographer, an instructor or another student, it’s always incumbent upon the person holding the gun to point the muzzle in a safe direction and not press the trigger until assured of their target.

If we adhere to Col. Cooper’s four universal fi****ms safety rules, Rule 4 is know your target and what’s beyond it. Then we have, “Never allow the muzzle to cover anything you wouldn’t be willing to destroy.”

When I teach classes, there are times when I need to step in front of the students, ahead of the imaginary line on the ground and address them. Our students are asked, “Whose responsibility is it to make sure that you don’t point a gun at something or someone that shouldn’t have a gun pointed at it?” The correct response is that it is the responsibility of the person holding the gun.

We find it strange and completely disingenuous when folks claim that their training course supposedly teaches students how to perform under life and death circumstances, but then teaches “administrative” techniques and creates imaginary lines on the ground to somehow denote that the area behind the line is “safe” but the area in front of the line is “dangerous.”

The true purpose of good fi****ms training is to create scenarios that move from the simple to the complex and force the student to think with a gun in their hands. We refer to this as ballistic problem solving and students practice making the correct choices while simultaneously holding a loaded firearm.

When it comes to which direction to point their gun, whether up, or down, or at a threat/target, students are challenged to think and make the correct decision based upon the circumstances of that moment. Regardless of how wonderful and wise your favorite instructor might be, the chances of them standing next to you when you are required to save a life with your concealed handgun are slim. It is you who must make the correct decision and act when seconds matter.

Another question to students goes something like this, “When you walk out of the doors of the grocery store and are crossing the parking lot, where is downrange?” You might alter that to, “When you are eating dinner in a public restaurant with your wife, where is downrange, have you looked at where you are at, do you know where exits are?"

When a psychopath is about to stab a 3-year-old child to death, where is downrange? Thankfully to all involved, a member of the Omaha Police Department had the skill/ability and confidence in himself to take a lifesaving shot when the innocent victim was downrange.

Yeah, but that guy was a cop and cops have better training. First, they might or might not have better training than you, but that’s a personal problem. Secondly, if your default is that cops are better prepared for situations such as the Omaha incident, what happens when a cop isn’t there? If you’re carrying a firearm for self-protection, but don’t think you could have taken the shot to save the life of that child, that’s a problem.

If you would never engage in training where another person was in front of some imaginary line, you are not engaging in training that prepares you to deal with the real world. If you are carrying a concealed firearm and are forced to use it to save a life, do you believe that the only thing “downrange” is going to be the boogeyman? History would say otherwise.

There have been numerous court cases and decisions that have stated that police officers must be trained in areas and under circumstances in which they are expected to operate. Failure to properly train officers has been found to be grossly negligent. This is why officers must engage in “Shoot/Don’t Shoot” scenario training, low-light training, and various Use of Force training.

If you carry constitutional, License to Carry or LEOSA, failure to properly train o has been found to be grossly negligent. This is why you must engage in “Shoot/Don’t Shoot” scenario training, low-light training, and various Use of Force training.

Confidence Can’t Be Faked
Despite what new age hippies would have you believe, self-esteem and confidence in your abilities don’t come from a participation trophy or playing no-score soccer games. One of the primary reasons we go through training, in addition to learning the mechanics of fi****ms operation, is to build confidence in our abilities. The target does not care about your self-esteem. You either put the rounds where they are supposed to go or you do not. You cannot fake it.

Do you have the confidence in your ability to handle a loaded firearm while making correct decisions in a stressful situation? How do you learn to do just that?

Consider this scenario, you are home with your small child in the middle of the day. The child is playing on the living room rug while you’re in the kitchen. Without warning you hear your front door being smashed in. As you run to the living room, you see two armed home invaders. Your child is between you and them, you have seconds to either stop them or submit to their attack.

Assuming you are properly armed, do you have the confidence to take the shot past your child?

If we do not rise to the occasion or magically achieve superpowers under the extreme stress of a life or death scenario. Under such circumstances, you will default to the level of training you have mastered. When the time comes, you will either have the confidence in your abilities or you will hesitate because you do not.

Final Lesson: There’s No Such Thing as Safe Time or Place

I could not in good conscience close this out without pointing out what should be obvious. Both of the aforementioned horrific incidents took place during the daytime in areas we commonly think of as “safe places.” If you are in the habit of not carrying your concealed carry gun because you don’t go to bad places, you are doing what my pal Sheriff Jim Wilson calls “playing at self-defense”, you are not serious.

While we attempt to be good citizens and stay out of trouble, we must acknowledge that your desire to be a reasonable person has no bearing whatsoever on whether you are attacked as we saw both in Ohio and Nebraska. Were the mothers and their babies out looking for trouble or in places they should not have been?

Get realistic instructor led training, carry your gun, and be mentally prepared to defend your children’s or others lives. As James Yeager, said a thousand times, your responsibility to be ready for the fight never ends.

Most of this article is taken from Student of the Gun.

Good, Better, Best: A mindset for the modern gun carrier

During the 2025–2026 football season, there was a noticeable sense of anticipation around the Chicago Bears—not just because of generally strong team performance and highlight-reel plays, but because of the standard being reinforced behind closed doors. What stood out the most to me wasn’t a touchdown or a stat line, but the way Coach Ben Johnson ended his locker room talks. Johnson would pull the team in and shout:

“Good, better, best!

Never let it rest!”

Until your good gets better and your better gets best!”

Of course it was highly motivational, but equally (if not more) importantly, it was a way of communicating a standard. And that resonated with me because the concept extends in a very real way from sports to law enforcement. Standards matter a great deal in our profession, and failing to meet them may have consequences that are far worse than losing a game. So let’s break it down:

Good

Good is showing up, Good is going to a baisc gun course, basic non-lethal training course. Good is qualifying on the range at a non-moving paper target. Good is passing defensive tactics at the academy or with an instructor. Good keeps you employed. But good does not necessarily keep you sharp or safe, and it certainly doesn’t reliably keep you safe. Good does not mean you know your stTes gun or self defense laws. It definitely doesn’t separate you from the pack when the pressure hits. In law enforcement or a daily person who carries, “good” is the baseline. It’s the minimum acceptable performance when no one is pushing you.

Unfortunately, the street doesn’t care about minimums.

Better

Better is intentional. Better is staying after training to run a drill again or doing training instructor led training once or twice a year. Better is cleaning up your nutrition and working on your fitness when no one is watching. Better is knowing your states gun laws. Better is refining your control holds so they’re smooth and decisive under stress. Better is practicing your weapon transitions so they are crisp and precise. Better means you are no longer comparing yourself to others.

You are competing with yesterday’s version of you. Better builds confidence.

Best

Best is rare. Best is not about ego, it’s about refinement its about continually training using instructor led courses more than twice a year to learn better techniques for self or family protection. Best is restraint and knowledge of your states laws on use of force and when force is justified but wisdom governs the moment. Best is fitness that allows you to control without escalating. Best is calm communication when others are emotional. Best is the officer or daily gun carrief who makes the chaotic scene feel organized and under control just by stepping into it. You don’t reach “best” overnight. You reach it in layers — good to better, better to best — stacked over years of discipline.

The public expects your best not good or better. Your family depends on your best to come home Your partner deserves your best. No policy or state law can mandate it internally. It’s a decision every person who carries. Every shift, every rep, every call.

In this profession, the standard you accept privately will eventually show itself publicly. And the officers who quietly chase “better to best” every day are the ones who become the steady, dependable professionals everyone wants beside them when things go sideways.

Good, better, best, never let it rest.

Jim Klauba
Michael Watkins

I will be posting class dates for May next week.
LTC
Basic Pistol
Advanced Pistol
Shotgun
Security Lvl II, III & IV
Basic Rifle
Tactical Rifle

Non-lethal
Baton
OC
Handcuffing

Medical
Basic Medical
Tactical Medical-2 hr
Tactical Medical-8 hr

Training requires the ability to share knowledge earnestly and that knowledge be absorbed until ingrained in your soul!

Tecnico training will be back active starting on April 20th.

We will be back doing License to Carry, Security Officer (lvl II-IV), School Safety and First Responder, OC, Baton, Rifle and medical training.

So we had our CCW course today. This is the next iteration after LTC. Gives you confidence in shooting accurate in different senerios and what might be some tactical considerations if a threat is perpetrated against you. Give us a call for the next class on Sept 6th and Dec 7th. 915-412-6524

License to Carry Class July 26th and Range
Class Fee: $75.00 per person (veterans and first responders get a discoubt)
Time: 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Where:
Westside (address will be given once paid)

Train with confidence with Tecnico Protective Services LLC.

If you need to learn how to safely operate and shoot your handgun, contact me to setup a Basic Gun Training class prior to the LTC class.

Call me with any questions at 915-412-6524

NOTE: If you are registering more than one person, please add their name, email & phone number in the Add an order note section at check out.

> You will receive a certificate when you meet all requirements. (Required to get your LTC)
> Go over the use of force and deadly force.
> Gun laws
> Active shooter
> Home Defense
> Situational awareness
> Gun safety and storage.
> What to do during and after an incident, if you're forced to defend yourself.

What to Bring to class:
> A valid ID or Driver’s License
> An unloaded handgun (in a range bag, backpack or it’s box)
*Rentals are available upon request.
> 50 Rounds
> Ear & Eye protection (prescription glasses and sunglasses are
ok) Ear and eye protection are available upon request
> A cap with a brim
> No low cut or V neck shirts
> Closed footwear
> Class fee balance

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