Terms of Use

1. Who these terms are with, and how you accept them

Colorado Gun Laws (gunlawscolorado.com) is an independent reference site about Colorado firearms law, operated from Denver, Colorado, United States ("we", "us", "our"). "You" means anyone using the site. These Terms of Use govern that use, alongside our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into them and is the authority on how we handle data. You can reach us at corrections@gunlawscolorado.com or by post at Colorado Gun Laws, PO Box 203, Larkspur, CO 80118.

You accept these terms in one of two ways.

• By reading the site. Access to and use of these pages is subject to these terms as posted, to the fullest extent the law allows.
• By submitting a form. This site has two: the alerts sign-up and the instructor claim form. Each carries a notice at its submit button saying that submitting means you agree to these terms and the Privacy Policy. Submitting is your affirmative agreement — that is what we rely on for the arbitration agreement in section 14 — and we record the version of these terms in effect at that moment with the submission.

The version in effect is the one dated at the top of this page (2026-08-07). We may update these terms; the effective date changes when we do, changes apply going forward and never retroactively to something that already happened, and a submission is governed by the version in effect when it was made. If you do not agree to these terms, do not use the site.

2. Who this site is for

This site is offered to people who are at least 18 years old. Its subject matter is adult — Colorado and federal firearms law, including offenses, purchase eligibility and carry rules — and most of what it describes is not lawfully available to minors in the first place. By using the site or submitting a form, you confirm you are 18 or older.

The site is directed to a United States audience, and specifically to people dealing with Colorado law. If you use it from elsewhere, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for your own local law.

3. What this site is — and is not

This site is reference information. It is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship. We are not attorneys, and nothing here is a substitute for advice from a licensed Colorado attorney applied to your facts.

This matters more here than on most sites. Firearms law carries criminal penalties; liability often turns on details a summary cannot capture — where you were, what you knew, how the firearm was carried or stored; statutes interact with each other and with federal law; several Colorado firearms laws are the subject of active litigation and their enforceability can change quickly; and since 2021 municipalities may impose stricter rules than the state. The full disclaimer sets this out and forms part of these terms.

If your liberty is on the line, get a lawyer. If you cannot afford one, the Colorado state public defender is at coloradodefenders.us.

4. No warranty

The site is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.

We check every legal claim against the primary source and date it — see the methodology — and we still do not warrant that the site is accurate, complete or current. Statutes are amended, laws are enjoined and un-enjoined, and agencies reinterpret rules. The last-verified date on a page tells you when it was checked, not that it is correct today. Always confirm against the linked primary source before acting.

The same goes for the class finder: it reproduces a state roster as published, and we do not warrant that any listing is current, complete or correct, or that any instructor is available, qualified for your purpose, or still verified. Confirm with the instructor and with CPW.

5. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, property, business or data, arising out of or relating to your use of — or inability to use — this site, whether the claim is framed in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, and even if we have been advised that such damages are possible.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the site will not exceed one hundred United States dollars (US$100). This site is published free of charge, and that cap is a reasonable allocation of risk on both sides.

What this section does not do. It does not limit liability for fraud, willful misconduct or gross negligence, or any liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, and it does not waive any right you have under consumer-protection law that cannot be waived by agreement. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions or limitations, so parts of this section may not apply to you; in that case our liability is limited to the greatest extent permitted.

6. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from any third-party claim, damage, liability, cost or reasonable attorney's fee arising out of or relating to:

• presenting this site's content as legal advice, or as your own professional opinion, to someone who then relies on you;
• your breach of these terms, including the badge license in section 12 and the prohibitions in section 10;
• information you submit through either form, including a claim submitted for someone who is not you, or a website address you had no right to publish;
• your use of the site to plan or further an unlawful act; or
• your violation of any law or of anyone else's rights.

This does not apply to any claim to the extent it is finally determined to have resulted from our own gross negligence or willful misconduct, and nothing in it requires you to indemnify us for anything that cannot be indemnified under the law of the state where you live. We may take over the defense of any matter covered by this section at our own expense, and you agree to cooperate if we do.

7. Your responsibilities

You are responsible for verifying anything that matters against the primary source, for complying with the law wherever you are, and for obtaining professional advice before acting. Firearms law varies by state, by county and by city; a page here describing Colorado law tells you nothing reliable about anywhere else.

8. Intellectual property — ours, and what is not ours

What we own. The original writing, page structure, editorial selection and arrangement, design, badge artwork and site code are ours, © 2026 Colorado Gun Laws, and are protected by copyright.

What we do not own, and do not claim. The Colorado Revised Statutes, session laws, municipal codes, federal statutes and regulations, court opinions, official agency publications and the state's published instructor roster are government works. We quote them, cite them, reorganize them and link to them; we assert no copyright over any of that material, and nothing in these terms restricts your use of it. Where you want the law itself, go to the source we link to — that is what the links are for.

9. What you may do with this site

You may read it, print it, save it, and share links to it. You may quote from it with attribution and a link to the page quoted. You may use it in your own research or in advising a client.

Crawlers, search engines and AI systems are welcome. This site's robots.txt permits automated access, and we mean it. Search engines, research tools and AI systems may crawl, index, quote and summarize these pages. We ask two things in return, as courtesies rather than conditions: cite the page URL so readers can verify the source, and carry the last-verified date. Content about criminal law without a date is how people end up relying on a repealed statute. If you quote a statute from here, quote it from the primary source we link to.

What we ask you not to do is republish the site's original prose wholesale as a substitute for it. Quoting, excerpting, summarizing, indexing and linking are all fine.

10. Things you must not do

• Present this site's content as legal advice, or as your own professional opinion, to someone relying on you.
• Misrepresent the site, or suggest that we endorse you, your firm, your products or your position. We take no position on what gun law should be.
• Suggest affiliation with any government body. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or publishing on behalf of the Colorado General Assembly, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, any sheriff's office, any court, or any other agency.
• Claim a listing that is not yours, or submit anyone else's contact details as your own.
• Use the site to plan or further any unlawful act.
• Interfere with the site's operation, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, defeat a rate limit or honeypot, or conduct security testing against it without our written permission.
• Use the site in violation of any applicable law.

11. The email alerts list

If you give us an email address, you are asking us to notify you when Colorado gun law changes. You can unsubscribe from any message and can ask us to delete your address at any time. What we collect and how we handle it is governed by our Privacy Policy. There is no charge and no obligation either way — nothing on this site is behind the form.

12. Instructor listings, claims, and the badge license

How the listings work. Colorado Parks & Wildlife publishes the roster of firearms instructors verified by county sheriffs under C.R.S. § 18-12-116(5)(a). Our class finder reorganizes that public list by county, showing name, county and website. A county sheriff verified the instructor; CPW published it; we sorted the list. This site does not verify, endorse, rank or vet anyone, and nothing about being listed here means we did. Listing is free, claimed or not, and asking to be removed takes one email to corrections@gunlawscolorado.com — handled within 72 hours, no reason needed.

Claiming. The claim form confirms an entry is yours by matching your name and the address the state has for you. A claim does not edit the site by itself; we apply it at the next weekly refresh. Submitting a website means asking us to publish it on your entry, and you confirm you have the right to have it published there.

The badge license. If your claim is confirmed, we offer you a badge image and snippet. The badge, its artwork and its wording are our intellectual property, and displaying it is a license, not a transfer. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to display it on these conditions:

• Only while you are listed. The license runs for exactly as long as your entry is on this site.
• Only on your own site. The site or page you control for your instruction business. Not on third-party marketplaces, listings, printed advertising or other people's properties without our written permission.
• Unmodified. Serve it from the URL we give you, without altering the artwork, wording, colors or proportions, and without adding claims around it that the badge does not make. Resizing proportionally is fine.
• Linked to your listing. The badge must link to your county listing page on this site, as the snippet we send does.
• No endorsement implied. The badge states that a sheriff verified you under SB25-003 and that you appear on the list we publish. It is not an award, a certification, a ranking, or an endorsement by us, by CPW, by any sheriff's office or by any other government body — and it must not be presented as any of those.

When it ends. The license ends automatically when your listing ends — if CPW's roster no longer carries you at a refresh, or if you ask to be delisted — and we may revoke it at any time on notice, including if it is used in a way this section does not permit. When it ends, take the badge down promptly. We may also stop serving the badge image.

13. Links to other sites

We link extensively to statutes, agencies, courts and instructors' own websites so you can verify what we say and find a class. We do not control those sites, are not responsible for their content, accuracy or availability, and a link is not an endorsement. Your use of them is governed by their own terms.

14. Dispute resolution: binding individual arbitration and class-action waiver

Read this section. It changes how disputes between us get resolved: most go to binding arbitration on an individual basis instead of court, there is no class action, and you have 30 days to opt out with no penalty.

(a) Talk to us first. Before either of us starts an arbitration or a lawsuit, the one with the complaint sends the other a written notice describing the dispute and what they want. To us: corrections@gunlawscolorado.com, or by post to Colorado Gun Laws, PO Box 203, Larkspur, CO 80118. To you: the email or postal address you gave us. For 60 days after that notice we both try, in good faith, to settle it informally. To the extent the law allows, that period pauses any limitation period. If we do not respond within 30 days, this step is satisfied and you may proceed.

(b) Agreement to arbitrate. If informal resolution fails, you and we each agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these terms, the site, the class finder, the badge, or any communication you receive as a result of using the site — including whether a dispute is subject to this agreement at all — will be resolved by binding arbitration on an individual basis rather than in court, except as subsections (c), (d) and (e) provide. This is mutual: it binds us exactly as it binds you. Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Consumer Arbitration Rules (including its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules where they apply) in effect when the arbitration is filed. If the AAA is unavailable or declines, we will agree on another consumer arbitration administrator; if we cannot agree, either of us may ask a court to appoint an arbitrator under 9 U.S.C. § 5. One arbitrator, in English, and at your choice by videoconference, on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live. Fees are governed by the administrator's consumer rules and fee schedule. The arbitrator may award any individual relief a court could, and the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction. The Federal Arbitration Act governs this section.

(c) Small claims. Either of us may instead bring an individual claim in small claims court — for you, the small claims court where you live — as long as it stays there and stays individual.

(d) Injunctions. Either of us may go to court for injunctive or other equitable relief to stop actual or threatened misuse of intellectual property, including misuse of the badge under section 12, without arbitrating first.

(e) Class-action waiver. You and we each give up the right to take part in a class action, class arbitration, consolidated action or representative proceeding. An arbitrator may award relief only to the individual seeking it, and only as far as needed to resolve that person's own claim. Despite subsection (b), whether this waiver is enforceable is for a court to decide, not an arbitrator. If a court finds it unenforceable for a particular claim, then this whole arbitration agreement does not apply to that claim, which goes to court under section 15 instead; this sentence is not severable from the rest of this subsection.

(f) Jury trial. There is no jury in arbitration. If this arbitration agreement does not apply to a claim — because you opted out, because the class-action waiver was found unenforceable, or for any other reason — then no jury-trial waiver applies to it either, and you keep whatever right to a jury the law gives you.

(g) Coordinated filings. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed against us by claimants using the same or coordinated counsel, they will be administered under the AAA's Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules (or the administrator's equivalent), including any batching those rules provide. That does not limit any individual claimant's right to arbitrate their own claim or the relief available to them.

(h) Your 30-day opt-out. You may reject this arbitration agreement — subsections (b) through (g) — entirely, with no penalty and no effect on anything else in these terms. Email corrections@gunlawscolorado.com with the subject line "Arbitration Opt-Out", your name, and the email address you used on the site (or, if you never submitted a form, an address where we can confirm it), within 30 days of your first form submission, using the date and time we recorded for it. If we hold no record of your acceptance, the 30-day window has not started and you may opt out at any time before a dispute arises. We will confirm by reply. If you opt out, disputes go to court under section 15.

(i) Severability and survival. Except as subsection (e) says, if part of this section is unenforceable the rest still stands. This section survives any termination of these terms.

15. Governing law and venue

These terms and any dispute arising out of them or the site are governed by the laws of the State of Colorado and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs section 14, and except that nothing here deprives you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection law of your own state that cannot be waived by agreement.

For any claim not subject to arbitration and not brought in small claims court, you and we consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in Colorado, unless the law of your state of residence guarantees you a different forum for consumer claims.

16. Termination and suspension

You may stop using the site at any time, and you can leave the alerts list or ask for your listing to come down whenever you like. We may, with or without notice, block or limit access to the site, refuse or ignore form submissions, revoke the badge license under section 12, and decline future service, if we reasonably believe you have broken these terms or the law, or to protect the site, its data, other people or ourselves.

Sections that by their nature should outlast the end of your use of the site do: sections 3 through 10, 12, 14, 15, 17 and 20.

17. Copyright complaints

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, email corrections@gunlawscolorado.com identifying the work, the page complained of, your contact details, and a statement of your good-faith belief that the use is unauthorized. We respond to properly made complaints promptly and will remove genuinely infringing material.

18. Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us — bluntly is fine. Corrections are made on the page and the last-verified date is updated when they are. That is the whole premise of the site, and it only works if people report errors. Listing corrections and removals are handled within 72 hours.

19. Changes to the site, and to these terms

We may change, add, remove or discontinue any part of the site at any time, including taking it down entirely. It is published free and we make no commitment to keep any page available. If you rely on something here, keep your own copy of the primary source.

We may also revise these terms. When we do we post the revised version here, change the effective date, and keep prior versions available on request. Changes apply going forward only. No change to section 14 applies to a dispute that arose before the change, and a form submission is governed by the version in effect when it was made. For a material change to section 5 or section 14, we will ask for your fresh agreement at your next submission before the new version applies to you.

20. Severability and entire agreement

Except as section 14(e) says, if any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, that provision is limited or removed to the minimum extent necessary and the rest remains in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy and the disclaimer, are the entire agreement between us about your use of this site.

These terms are ours to draft and ours to stand behind. They were not written by an attorney, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise.

21. Contact

Email corrections@gunlawscolorado.com, or write to Colorado Gun Laws, PO Box 203, Larkspur, CO 80118. See also about this site and how it is researched.