Top U.S. auctioneers refused to sell gun from Trayvon Martin shooting
Source: Reuters
Two of America's leading auctioneers of guns said they refused on ethical grounds to handle the sale of the 9 mm pistol that George Zimmerman used to kill unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin.
The firearm is so toxic that another auctioneer, the man who sold the revolver used to kill John F. Kennedy's assassin, said he would want no part of it had he been approached by Zimmerman.
Zimmerman, a onetime neighborhood watch volunteer, is trying to sell the Kel-Tec PF-9 that he used to shoot the black Florida teenager in 2012, a case that convulsed the country and ignited debates on race relations, gun control and American justice.
A jury acquitted Zimmerman, who was protected by Florida's "stand your ground" self-defense laws.
Two auctioneers, Wes Cowan of Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati and James Julia of James D. Julia Auctioneers in Fairfield, Maine, both said on Friday that Zimmerman called their establishments recently hoping to consign the gun with them. Both turned him down.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-collectors-idUSKCN0Y42NZ
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)rurallib
(62,426 posts)orwell
(7,775 posts)...through his butler.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)of how important it is for racist, intimidators to carry a gun. You just never know when you might need to shoot an unarmed Black kid on a Sunday evening.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)to destroy the thing.
Melt it into scrap metal to then pour into a mold of a Memorial to Trayvon Martin and victims of police shootings.
Edit- and then have the Memorial dropped into the deepest part of the ocean where no one can find it.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)Let that moron grow old, broke, and bitter. And let him be buried with the rusted mass that was once his gun.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)with the understanding that it'll be sawed into bite-sized bits and completely (in one sitting) eaten by Zimmerman. No money until the last bit of the gun is swallowed.
7962
(11,841 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Haven't any of his supporters given him a good job?
rocktivity
7962
(11,841 posts)he's gone totally off the edge
Skittles
(153,169 posts)they'd buy it if they could
christx30
(6,241 posts)No one wants to touch him. If he gave someone CPR, that person would come back and say "Could you just not touch me please?"
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)fbc
(1,668 posts)Pastiche423
(15,406 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)George ain't gonna sell that gun in that action, or in any online auction. He might be able to sell it privately.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)"One time neighborhood watch volunteer". It makes him sound legitimate. He was out looking for someone to harass and he found someone. A kid walking through the area with a soda and candy.
Judi Lynn
(160,545 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)he was looking for trouble, and he found it - trouble he himself created