What type of gun killed trayvon martin

Mr Zimmerman said some of the proceeds would serve to "fight [Black Lives Matter] violence against law enforcement officers".

But Martin family lawyer Benjamin Crump told Fox the sale was "offensive, outrageous and insulting".

Trayvon Martin was walking home from a shop in Sanford, Florida, in February when there was an altercation with Mr Zimmerman. Mr Zimmerman said he had fired in self-defence. He was charged and acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter. Trayvon Martin death gun to be auctioned.

How will US museums remember Trayvon Martin? The man responsible for the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, in the US state of Florida is now auctioning off the pistol he used in the February killing. It will also fund combating anti-gun rhetoric of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and ending the career of Angela Corey, the attorney who led the prosecution against Zimmerman, the listing says. Zimmerman, now 32, said that he was defending himself when he shot and killed Martin, 17, in a gated community near Orlando.

The Justice Department later decided not to bring a civil rights case against Zimmerman. The group is the second to host the listing after an initial site, GunBroker.

The auction listing on United Gun Group includes a description of the firearm — a 9 mm Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol — written by Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch captain acquitted by a jury in Martin's shooting death. Zimmerman, 32, said the Justice Department had recently returned the pistol to him, and he was not comfortable with some of the offers he has received from prospective gun buyers that he decided to sell it himself through the auction.

The shooting of Martin, an unarmed year-old African-American, became a lightning rod case that set off protests and a national conversation about race. Zimmerman confronted Martin after he saw him walking through his gated Sanford community on Feb. That led to an altercation and the shooting. Zimmerman claimed self-defense. Neither Zimmerman nor his defense attorney have responded to requests for comment about the auction.