George Zimmerman Selling Gun Used to Kill Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman is selling the pistol he used to shoot and kill 17-year-old Trayvon Martin nearly four years ago.
The infamous 32-year-old Florida resident listed the Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm handgun up for a single-day auction on GunBroker.com, with a starting bid set at $5,000 and an undisclosed “reserve price” the winning bidder must meet. Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Martin after an intense trial in which the defendant claimed he acted in self-defense to fend off the unarmed teenager.
“I am honored and humbled to announce the sale of an American Firearm Icon,” Zimmerman wrote in the item’s description. “The firearm for sale is the firearm that was used to defend my life and end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin on 2/26/2012… This is a piece of American History.”
Zimmerman claimed he has received multiple offers from museums to purchase the weapon, but he was dissatisfied with attempts to “use the gun in a fashion I did not feel comfortable with.” He also went after “B. Hussein Obama” for attempting to “render the firearm inoperable” before returning it to him.
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