DaveC
Blue Crack Addict
But who fucking cares what he's doing? Nobody should be keeping up with his every move. Let it go. He should be irrelevant. Don't make a celebrity out of him.
it's not at all that he is auctioning it off (i think, for me at least), it's the fact that he's doing shit like this while he's at it:
In his auction description, Zimmerman calls the gun, which still has the case number written on it in silver ink, an "American Firearm Icon." Some of the money he makes off the auction will be used to "ensure the demise of Angela Correy's [sic] prosecution career and Hillary Clinton's anti-firearm rhetoric," he writes. Corey was the special prosecutor who tried to put Zimmerman behind bars.
United Gun Group initially declined to host the auction after another gun auction site, Gunbroker, said it wanted "no part in the listing on our website or in any of the publicity it is receiving."
At first, United Gun Group said, "Our mission is to esteem the 2nd Amendment and provide a safe and secure platform for firearms enthusiasts and law-abiding citizens; our association with Mr. Zimmerman does not help us achieve that objective."
Later, it recanted, and Zimmerman put what he called "a piece of American history" on the site with a starting bid of $100,000 and a "buy it now" price of $500,000.
"I am honored and humbled to announce the sale of an American firearm icon," the website said. "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 took shots at GunBroker in his post-auction statement, calling the site GunJoker and "Nazi loving liberal liars."