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April 6, 2023: Gun bills update; new childhood obesity guidelines

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Republican Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen, right, speaks in opposition to tightening the state’s Extreme Risk Protection Order, “red flag” law, on March 10, 2023. Democratic Senate President Steve Fenberg, center, and state Sen. Tom Sullivan, left, look on. Sullivan’s son was killed in the 2012 Aurora theatre shooting.

Two measures that change gun laws in Colorado are headed to the governor's desk and others may follow. Then, new guidelines on how to best treat children diagnosed as overweight or obese. And, Colorado's only oil and gas refinery is up and running, but nearby residents aren't happy. Also, the story of a baseball pitcher whose fastball might go from fiction…to fact.