If you were appalled by George Zimmerman’s attempt to sell the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin, you can thank someone named “Racist McShootface” for sabotaging the auction by driving up the price to $65 million and forcing a halt to the sale.
The “McShootface” account was soon deleted, but the price remained at $65 million, which has delayed the sale of the gun because no one, so far, has offered more. Zimmerman was seeking $5,000.
Zimmerman originally listed the gun on GunBroker.com, but that site took down the listing after public outcry, so he moved the auction to the website for the United Gun Group.
“I am honored and humbled to announce the sale of an American Firearm Icon. 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,” Zimmerman wrote in the listing for the weapon.
He said he was planning to donate a portion of his profits to an anti-Black Lives Matter group and to “ensure the demise of Angela Corey’s persecution career and Hillary Clinton’s anti-firearm rhetoric.” Corey was the state attorney who led Zimmerman’s prosecution for Martin’s death.
Zimmerman also claimed that many have made offers to purchase the gun already, including the Smithsonian Museum. However, the museum has denied any such interest.
“The Smithsonian has never expressed an interest in collecting this firearm and has no intention of collecting or displaying this firearm,” a spokesman for the Smithsonian said in a statement to the Chicago Tribune.
The killing of the unarmed 17-year-old Martin sparked intense rallies across America and heightened the debate around Florida’sStand Your Ground Law. Zimmerman was acquitted of both the murder and manslaughter charges in 2013.