Meleanie Hain and
Scott Hain were pronounced dead Wednesday night at their home in
Lebanon, a small city about 80 miles west of Philadelphia.

The
couple's three children were home at the time but weren't hurt, police
said. They were taken to stay with friends and relatives.

Meleanie
Hain, 31, and Scott Hain, 33, had been having marital problems for
about a week, neighbor Mark Long said. Scott Hain had left the couple's
home on Tuesday, and Meleanie Hain didn't know where he was, but he
returned Wednesday, Long said.

Autopsies on the Hains were to be conducted Thursday, coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum said.

Meleanie
Hain made headlines after she attended a children's soccer game in a
park on Sept. 11, 2008, with a handgun in plain view holstered on her
hip, upsetting other parents.

The county sheriff, Michael DeLeo, revoked her gun-carrying permit nine days later.

Hain
successfully appealed the permit revocation, although the judge who
restored the permit questioned her judgment and said she had "scared
the devil" out of other people at the game.

Hain
sued DeLeo in federal court, alleging that he violated her
constitutional rights and prosecuted her maliciously when he took the
permit away. She said that because of his actions her baby-sitting
service had suffered, her children had been harassed and she had been
ostracized by her neighbors in Lebanon, which has about 25,000
residents.

DeLeo said at Hain's appeal that he
revoked her permit after fielding the parents' complaints. He said he
based his decision on a state law that prohibits certain gun permits
from being given to anyone whose character and reputation make him or
her a danger to public safety.

After Hain sued
DeLeo, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which says it tries to
reform the gun industry through sensible regulations, offered to defend
him for free.

"It is a case that calls
out for common sense," Brady Center attorney Daniel Vice said then.
"It's ridiculous to bring a gun to a child's soccer game."

A
court hearing on Hain's $1 million lawsuit was postponed in May after
an attorney in the case was involved in a traffic accident.