LEBANON, Pa. (AP) -- A soccer mom who was thrust into the gun-rights debate after taking a loaded pistol to youth sports events was killed by her husband Friday.

Meleanie Hain became a voice of the gun-rights movement last year when she fought for the right to carry a holstered pistol at her young daughter's soccer games. ''I'm just a soccer mom who has always openly carried [a firearm], and I've never had a problem before,'' Hain declared last fall.

"Well, that was a first!" her ghost in heaven says.