Gun Used In Travyon Martin Shooting Pulled From Auction Site

George Zimmerman was auctioning off the 9mm reportedly fired the night 17-year-old Travyon Martin was shot and killed.

SANFORD, FL -- The former Florida neighborhood watch captain who shot and killed an unarmed teenager in 2012 was looking to cash in on the weapon used that fateful night. His plans, however, may have been dashed.

GunBroker.com had the auction listed with an 11 a.m. start time Thursday. The opening bid was set at $5,000.

By 11:30 a.m., the auction had been pulled from the site with no explanation for the removal. Whether that means the auction site opted against brokering the deal or Zimmerman received an offer he couldn't refuse remains unclear.

Requests for comment from GunBroker.com issued by Patch have gone unanswered.

George Zimmerman’s Kel-Tec PF-9 9mm was intended to go on the auction block 11 a.m. Thursday. The gun, Zimmerman wrote in the auction description, is the same one used to fire the shot that killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012.

“The firearm for sale is the firearm that was used to defend my life an end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin on 2/26/2012,” Zimmerman wrote in the auction’s description. “It has recently been returned to me by the Department of Justice.”

Zimmerman describes the gun as an “American Firearm Icon,” but does admit it has an imperfection that goes along with the story that followed the 2012 shooting: “The pistol currently has the case number written on it in silver permanent marker," the auction description reads.

The intended one-day online auction was for an “as is” weapon with no refund or exchange provided.

The condition listing was, of course, “used.”

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At least one of the uses occurred on the night when Zimmerman fired the gun at Martin. Zimmerman was acquitted on second-degree murder charges in 2013, sparking heated racial tensions across the country.

In the years following the acquittal, Zimmerman has been in and out of the news. He even blamed President Barack Obama for racial tensions that erupted following the 2012 shooting. He was also implicated in a road rage incident and had domestic violence allegations levied against him that were subsequently dropped.

Zimmerman has also found himself the target of a shooter. Last May, he was fired at during an incident that unfolded near Interstate 4 in the Lake Mary area. He suffered minor injuries in the shooting. Matthew Apperson is the accused shooter in that case. He remains in the Seminole County Jail as his attempted second-degree murder case moves through the court system.

Federal civil rights charges in the 17-year-old’s death loomed over Zimmerman until last year. The U.S. Justice Department cited “ insufficient evidence” for its February 2015 decision against pursuing further action.

Zimmerman also sparked controversy last September when he retweeted a picture that showed the 17-year-old’s dead body. One of Zimmerman’s Twitter followers posted the image of Trayvon Martin with the tweet “Z-man is a one-man army,” People magazine reported. Rather than pass it by, Zimmerman blasted the image out in a retweet to his 12,000 or so followers. The tweet was taken down, People noted.

The Zimmerman auction was intended to run through 11 a.m. Friday, May 13 on the GunBroker.com website.