Wait! What?! Zimmerman kept the gun after shooting Trayvon.

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6. I'm confused as to what they'd need balistics for

Zimmerman admitted it was his gun and that he shot Trayvon with it. Certainly there were all kinds of mistakes made by the police in the case (if "mistakes" they really are). But there isn't any issue as to what gun was used, who it belonged to and who shot Trayvon. So I don't get what they would have needed the gun for as far as ballistics in concerned. As far as the police are concerned he lawfully defended himself, and there was no reason to arrest him. So why would they confiscate his gun?

I think it's pretty clear that the police weren't making any mistakes. For whatever reason they chose to believe Zimmerman's story of lawful self defense even with all the evidence to the contrary and even went out of their way to "correct" witnesses statements to fit that scenerio. This was no series of unconnected mistakes... it was a calculated effort by the police to protect a murderer who committed an obvious homicide. Of course they wouldn't confiscate the gun. What for? They were calculatedly acting in Zimmerman's best interests despite the obvious. The question is why, and THAT also needs investigating.