In 2016, Wyoming Gun Owners (WYGO) Executive Director Anthony Bouchard was elected to the Wyoming State Senate. Bouchard contacted his long time friend, Aaron Dorr, and asked him to take over the work of WYGO, just days before the start of the 2017 session.

WYGO was in some state of disarray at that time, and much of the 2017 legislative session was consumed with reorganizing the organizations paperwork with the IRS and the State of Wyoming.

But after having led the fight to pass Stand-Your-Ground law in Missouri (2016) and Iowa (2017,) and with Wyoming being the only western state without a Stand-Your-Ground law, Aaron was determined to pass this crucial legislation in Wyoming in 2018.