Claim your listing on the Colorado class finder
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If Colorado Parks & Wildlife's verified-instructor roster carries your name, you are already listed on this site — free, with nothing to sign up for. Claiming lets you add or correct your website, and gives you a badge for your own site. You can also ask to be removed, and we take the listing down the same day.
What this is, plainly
CPW publishes its sheriff-verified firearms instructors as one unsorted spreadsheet — 376 rows covering 336 people, since some are listed more than once. We reorganized that same public list by county so people searching for a class can actually find one. Your entry shows your name, your county, and your website if we could find it — never your email address.
To be exact about who verified what: your county sheriff verified you, CPW published it, and we sorted the list. This site does not verify, endorse, rank, or vet instructors, and the badge below says the same thing.
Claim your entry
Use your name exactly as it appears on the state list, and the email address the state has for you — that pairing is how we confirm a claim is really yours. Nothing is published until we apply it on the next weekly refresh.
Claimed — here's your badge
Your listing: your county page. Paste the code below anywhere on your own site to display the badge.
The badge
It states three facts and nothing else: a sheriff verified you, under SB25-003, and you're on the list this site publishes. It is not an award and not our endorsement — we have no standing to give either.
The code you'll paste looks like this, with your own county filled in:
<a href="https://gunlawscolorado.com/find-firearms-safety-course/your-county/">
<img src="https://gunlawscolorado.com/badge/verified-instructor-2026.svg"
alt="Sheriff-verified firearms instructor — listed on gunlawscolorado.com"
width="300" height="86">
</a>
Where to paste it
Two minutes on any of these. The badge is one small image that links back to your listing — it loads from this site, so you have nothing to upload.
Wix
- Open the page you want it on and click Edit.
- Add Elements (the + button) → Embed Code → Embed HTML.
- Drag the box where you want the badge, then click Enter Code.
- Paste the code, click Update, then resize the box so it fits the badge (about 300 by 90 pixels).
- Publish.
Squarespace
- Edit the page, then click an insertion point where you want the badge.
- Choose the Code block from the block menu.
- Delete the placeholder text, paste the code, and make sure the block's mode is set to HTML.
- Click Apply, then Save.
WordPress
- Edit the page, post, or a sidebar widget area.
- Add a Custom HTML block (in the block editor, click + and search for "Custom HTML").
- Paste the code into the block.
- Update or Publish.
Anything else
Any site builder with an "embed HTML", "custom code", or "raw HTML" block works the same way — paste the code, save, done. If yours doesn't have one, or the badge comes out the wrong size, email us and we'll work it out with you.
Corrections and removal
Wrong county? Name misspelled by the state? Don't want to be listed? Email [email protected] and it's handled the same day — no form, no account, no reason needed. Listing is free for everyone whether or not you ever display the badge, and there is nothing to buy on this page.
Common questions
Do I have to display the badge to stay listed?
No. Every instructor on CPW's roster is listed here whether they claim the entry or not, and whether they ever display the badge or not. The badge is offered, never required.
Does being listed here mean gunlawscolorado.com verified me?
No, and we're careful not to imply it. Your county sheriff verified you under C.R.S. § 18-12-116(5)(a); CPW published that on its specified semiautomatic firearms page; this site reorganized the state's list by county. We add no vetting of our own.
Why does the claim form need my email if you never publish it?
It's how we know the claim is yours. We compare it to the address the state has on file for your name — and only ever store a one-way hash of that address for the check, so a claim can be confirmed without keeping addresses lying around. Your email is never shown on the site.
My name isn't on the list but I am verified. What now?
CPW's list is refreshed by the state, and we re-pull it weekly, so a recent verification may simply not have propagated yet. If it's been a while, email us and we'll look — but we can't add someone the state's roster doesn't carry. Publishing our own idea of who is verified is exactly the thing this site refuses to do.
What does it cost?
Nothing. There is no paid tier on this page and no upsell attached to a claim.