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Source: AP
The attorney who helped murder defendant George Zimmerman win a controversial acquittal last month was frustrated to learn his client toured a gun factory on Thursday.
According to TMZ, the former neighborhood crime watchman visited Kel-Tec firearms, the company that manufactured the semi-automatic handgun Zimmerman used in the fatal confrontation with Trayvon Martin.
We certainly would not have advised him to go to the factory that made the gun that he used to shoot Trayvon Martin through the heart, Shawn Vincent, a spokesman for attorney Mark OMara, told Yahoo News. That was not part of our public relations plan.
News of Zimmermans visit to the gunmaker comes just six weeks after a jury found him not guilty in the 2012 shooting death of Martin, an unarmed black teenager in Sanford, Fla. The trial was televised to a wide audience, and his acquittal led to nationwide protests and prompted President Barack Obama to speak out on the case.
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