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Pistol-Packin' Soccer Mom Shot Dead

Meleanie Hain and husband killed in apparent murder-suicide

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 8, 2009 2:32 AM CDT

(Newser) – A Pennsylvania mom who hit the headlines last year for carrying a loaded handgun to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer games has been found shot dead with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide. The couple’s three children were home during the shootings but were unharmed, police told the Patriot-News. The pair had been having marital problems, neighbors said. Meleanie Hain's gun permit was revoked after other parents complained about her packing a pistol on her hip at games, but it was restored on appeal.

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The way people look at me sometimes when I am out running errands, I feel as if I am wearing a scarlet letter, and really it’s a Glock 26. - Meleanie Hain on her lawsuit against the sheriff who revoked her gun permit

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