YOU CAN DO BETTER, COLORADO — AND GET ONE WHILE YOU STILL CAN: Concealed carry keeps growing in Colorado; over twenty-five thousand new permits in 2023. “While that number trails a permitting surge during Covid lock-downs and rioting related to the police killing of George Floyd (over 37,000 in 2020 and more than 41,000 in 2021), it’s still larger than the 23,250 permits issued in pre-pandemic 2019. In the five-year period from 2019-2023, just over 155,000 Coloradans obtained new permits, while just under 143,ooo existing permits were renewed (a Colorado CHP is valid for five years).”