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State visitors can hide their guns


By Jerry Cornfield
Herald Writer


Beginning this week, visitors from North Carolina may arrive with more than a suitcase and video camera.

They may be packing a gun. And it will be legal.

For the first time, Washington is recognizing other states' concealed weapon licenses, if those licenses are issued under the same guidelines as here.

"The right of self-defense does not and should not stop at the state border," said Joe Waldron, executive director of the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a Bellevue-based gun-rights group with 650,000 members, including 18,000 in this state.

North Carolina and Washington signed an agreement for reciprocal recognition last week. Similar arrangements with other states will be completed this week, and a list will be posted by Thursday on the Web site of the state attorney general, www.atg.wa.gov.

"The announcement of this new law is spreading across the United States," said state Sen. Val Stevens, R-Arlington, who authored the law establishing reciprocity. It won support from 147 of 150 lawmakers before Gov. Gary Locke signed it.

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