What compliance actually costs

This page keeps a dated, sourced record of what complying with SB25-003 costs in practice: county fees, state fees, waiting time, training costs, and travel. This record exists so that anyone weighing this law, a court, a committee, a reporter, a researcher, can see what it costs the people complying with it.

The measured costs so far

Counties with a published sheriff fee 6 See county sources

Minimum published sheriff fee $0 See county sources

Median published sheriff fee $87.50 See county sources

Maximum published sheriff fee $200 See county sources

Counties with no published sheriff fee yet 58 See unknown rows

Reviewed cost reports on file 0 Human-reviewed reports will appear here after they merge.

County fee figures come from the county tracker. Each county row carries its own source and last-checked date.

Firearms training and safety course record fee: $52. Collected by the sheriff's office, forwarded to Colorado Parks and Wildlife.

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Basic course: 4 hours, for applicants with a CPW-verified hunter-education credential. Extended course: 12 hours over at least 2 days, for everyone else.

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Pass a written exam and a hands-on practical with a score of 90% or better.

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The costs nobody publishes yet

The public record still lacks several basic measurements. These are the fields this page is collecting:

Time from sheriff application to eligibility card in hand.
Course price and seat availability by region.
Travel distance to a sheriff-verified instructor.
Denial, appeal, and completion outcomes.

SB25-003's fiscal note estimates state revenue and agency costs. It does not tally the citizen-side cost of sheriff fees, course prices, travel, or waiting time.

fiscal note checked 2026-07-09agent-monitored

Why write it down

Courts, committees, journalists, and researchers work from documented, attributable records. An as-applied challenge is a claim about how a law operates for specific people or situations. Fees, waits, course access, travel, and denials are implementation facts; without dates and sources, they are difficult for anyone else to weigh.

See the litigation tracker, the purchase pipeline, and the training requirements for the related public record.

NYSRPA v. Bruen is the Supreme Court opinion that names the current Second Amendment text-and-history standard.

Bruen opinion checked 2026-07-09agent-monitored

Active SB25-003 cases are tracked from public dockets; filings in those cases cite implementation facts.

CourtListener checked 2026-07-09agent-monitored

The SB25-003 bill page is the state landing page for the act text, fiscal notes, and legislative history.

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Report what it cost you

Use this form for costs, time, course access, or outcomes from the compliance process. Use /corrections for errors in the published county or firearm-list record.

A human reviews every report before anything is published.
Published facts carry a source note and the community verification tier.
There is no name field.
Optional email goes into the review issue only, never the repo.

County Stage reached

Fee paid ($) Days waited Course cost ($) Travel (miles)

What happened? Evidence URL (optional but helps) Your email (optional - for follow-up only) Used only if we need to follow up on this report. It goes into the review issue, never a mailing list, and is never sold or shared.

A community-verified fact is a report that a person submitted and the site reviewed before publication. See /corrections for the same review path used by record corrections.