Saturday, May 14, 2016

No buyers for Zimmerman's gun that killed Trayvon Martin in 2012


Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman had used a gun to shoot dead teenager 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. He had used a 9mm Kel-Tec pistol and had been charged with Martin's murder. Zimmerman had claimed it was in self defence and was acquitted in 2013 under Florida's controversial self-defence laws.
He now want to sell off the gun but is not finding any takers. Auctioneers have refused to accept it for auction. This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 14 May 2016.
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old black American student who lived on the gated housing estate that Zimmerman was patrolling when the pair got into an altercation before the shooting. The killing ignited a passionate debate in America over guns, the right to self-defence and black civil rights. Zimmerman, who is Hispanic American, had insisted that he had been attacked by Martin and had no option but to defend himself under Florida's "stand your ground" law.
Auctioneers have admitted that Zimmeman had approached them but they have refused to accept the gun because, as one of them has said, Zimmerman was "despicable," while another one likened it to trading in Nazi memorabilia.
An antique firearms consultant has indicated that the negative publicity for an auctioneer should they agree to accept the weapon for sale would outweigh any profit.


Image courtesy https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zastava_M88A_Tokarev_9mm_pistol.jpg

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4 comments:

  1. UnknownMay 25, 2016 at 10:52 PM

    Eh. No, the photographer is called Einar Kramer, not "wikimediacommons.org".

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  2. prabir ghoseMay 29, 2016 at 8:28 AM

    it is sourced from wikimediacommons.org

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    1. UnknownJune 1, 2016 at 9:40 PM

      Where you find it is a different matter.

      https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zastava_M88A_Tokarev_9mm_pistol.jpg says:

      "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
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      attribution share alike This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
      You are free:
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      share alike – If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one."

      And I am clearly listed on the page.

      Just because you find things on Wikipedia doesn't mean you can do what you please with it.

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    2. prabir ghoseJune 2, 2016 at 9:18 AM

      i tender my apologies - i presumed that images in wikimedia could be used by giving source as wikimedia - anyway, i have modified my source and have added your link ...

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