"It was a disgrace," said Joe Brown, who lives a few doors down from McKie's nearly finished stone mansion on Youngs Ford Road and got one of the two-page flyers Saturday. "I have no idea what they were thinking."
Gladwyne residents said they were angry that someone would try to run the player, who was arrested June 23, out of town. Two longtime friends talking outside the post office tsked-tsked when shown the flyer. It's unfair, they said, to target McKie just because he made a mistake.
"The consensus of opinion is how pathetic that some coward feels that they have to send something around like that. We're all trying to find out who it is," said Wally Heppenstall, a Realtor and flower-store owner who has lived in Gladwyne for more than 50 years.
McKie, who was released by the Memphis Grizzlies in May and may rejoin the Sixers as a coach, brushed off the controversy.
"What's new? You know how that stuff goes. They want to try to convict you before you even go on trial," he said. "I have to look into it. I have a family. I'll see what happens."
McKie is accused of trying to buy two guns despite being under a protection-from-abuse order filed on behalf of former girlfriend Kianna Williams, who alleged he threw her to the ground and threatened to kill her in September.
The order bars gun purchases. Authorities said that when filling out forms to buy the pistols in a Montgomery County gun shop April 8, McKie checked a box stating he was not under a restraining order.
He was charged with a felony gun violation and a misdemeanor charge of lying to authorities. The felony charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
In 2001, McKie was under another protection-from-abuse order after Williams, the mother of his daughter, alleged he punched her and dislocated her jaw.
