George Zimmerman sat down for a TV interview this week to discuss auctioning off the gun he used to kill Trayvon Martin.
The interview aired Monday on KTNV, an ABC affiliate in Las Vegas. In it, Zimmerman puffs on a cigar and wears a white polo with a gun design on it as he discusses the auction, the day he shot Martin in Sanford in 2012 and the Black Lives Matter movement, among other things.
Zimmerman says his Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol fetched $250,000 from the auction on UnitedGunGroup.com, which ran from May 17 to May 18. That listing was his third and final attempt to sell the gun after trolls and fraudulent bidders derailed his first two tries.
The former Sanford Neighborhood Watch volunteer didn’t seem fazed by the attempts at sabotage since he says they helped drive up the price to a quarter of a million dollars. He didn’t name the winning bidder or clarify whether or not he’s actually received the money at this point.
That money, he says, will go toward making sure Hillary Clinton doesn’t get elected as president, thwarting the Black Lives Matter campaign and to help out the family of Deputy Darren Goforth, a deputy in Texas who was shot and killed solely because he was a law enforcement officer, according to Click2Houston.
Though the gun auction was tumultuous, Zimmerman says he plans to auction off more items in the future. He mentioned possibly selling the clothing he had on during the shooting or more paintings, like the Confederate flag prints he sold at Florida Gun Supply — known as the “Muslim-free” gun store — last year.
Criticism of Zimmerman’s actions since he was acquitted in July 2013 has been widespread, but he said he’s not afraid of retaliation for auctioning the gun even though a Winter Springs man named Matthew Apperson is currently awaiting trial on an attempted murder charge after police say he shot at Zimmerman.
Zimmerman acknowledged that his life drastically changed after the shooting and said it wasn’t something he wanted to do.
“I would have stayed in bed if I would have thought I had to take a life in self defense,” he said. “I don’t think anybody in their right mind would want to be in this position.”
Click here to see the full half-hour interview at KTNV.com.
