No discharging a firearm, air rifle, or gas gun...

•from or over a road, trail, path or body of water.

•in any manner or place where any person or property is exposed to injury or damage.

•into or within a cave.

•with tracer bullets or incendiary ammunition.

•in or within 150 yards from a residence, building, campsite, trailhead, road, trail, structure, path, historical site, developed recreation area or occupied area.

•No possession of alcoholic beverages while discharging a firearm.

•Do not abandon any personal property.

•Pack out or properly dispose of all garbage.

•Use clay pigeons, cardboard, paper, steel, or self sealing targets manufactured for firearm use.  

•Never use any type of EXPLODING TARGETS. 

•Use target stands with a safe backstop. NEVER place targets on vegetation or structures, such as: trees, logs, stumps, slash piles, fences, fence post, buildings, signage, or water tanks.

•Do not discharging a firearm, air rifle, or gas gun in a manner that is disturbing, injuring, or in any way damaging to an archaeological resource, structure, site, artifact, or property.

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•May not possess a firearm while under the influence of intoxicating alcohol or a controlled substance.

•May carry a firearm in a vehicle if its use is for lawful protection of such person or another's person or property. Colorado law also allows a person to possess a handgun in a dwelling, place of business, or automobile. However, when you carry the weapon into your home, business, hotel room, etc. it must be in plain view. 

•May carry a weapon in your vehicle. However it is unlawful for any person, except a person authorized by law or by the division, to possess or have under his control any firearm, other than a pistol or revolver, in or on any motor vehicle unless the chamber of such firearm is unloaded.

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 •Only use cardboard targets, paper targets, manufactured metallic targets (metal targets specifically designed for firearms), manufactured thrown-type clay targets (clay pigeons), manufactured polymer ground-bouncing or self-healing firearm targets. Everything else is prohibited.

•Only use paintball or air soft guns more than 150 yards away from any residence, building, campsite, developed recreation site, or occupied area; not shooting across or on a National Forest System road, trail, body of water adjacent thereto, or in any manner or place whereby any person or property is exposed to injury or damage; and not shooting into or within a cave.

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• It shall be unlawful to openly carry, possess, discharge or use a firearm or archery

device on Jefferson County Open Space.

• It shall be unlawful to possess, discharge or use other devices that discharge a projectile including,

but not limited to, B-B guns, pellet guns, air guns, paintball guns, Airsoft-type guns and slingshots on Jefferson County Open Space.

Note: Sheriff Deputies may enforce any regulation, but Kelsey Creek NFSR 528G is NOT within a declared Jefferson County Open Space.

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•Treat every gun as if it is loaded.

•Never let the muzzle of a firearm point at anything you do not intend to shoot.

•Keep your finger off of the trigger until your sights are on the target and you are ready to shoot.

•Make sure of your target and what is beyond it confirming your backstop.

•Never handle firearms while under the influence of any intoxicant.