A Lebanon County woman who drew national attention last year for carrying a loaded handgun to her child's soccer game was shot dead Wednesday in what police are calling a murder suicide. Each year the state police put out a report on firearm trends in the state.
Here's some local info:
Handgun sales
- In York County, where about 420,000 people live, there were more than 17,000 guns sold in 2008. About 45 percent were handguns.
- In Lebanon County, which has about 128,934 residents, there were about 9,100 guns sold, with about 47 percent being handguns.
License to carry
- York County had 5,777 of these permits issued in 2008. As a percent of the county's total population, about 1.4 percent got one of these permits that year.
- Lebanon County had 1,651. That's about 1.3 percent of the population.
(Photo credit: Meleanie Hain sports a holstered Glock at her daughter's soccer practice in September 2008. Lebanon Daily News)
