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

[TorchTheWitch]

34. It isn't going to matter if the gun is at the bottom of a lake now

And if it is it would only serve to cast a HUGE red flag of suspicion on Zimmerman as to why he no longer had the gun... an innocent man who killed someone in self defense isn't going to be so stupid as to get rid of the gun particularly when its absence wouldn't help him one iota anyway. They don't need the gun to know what kind of bullets were used or the location of the wounds or how closely the victim and the perp were in proximity when it was fired or the tragectory, etc. because they have the body with at least one bullet in it for that. The gun itself isn't going to tell them how many shots were fired because the police can't know solely based on the gun itself how many bullets were in it before the murder as compared to how many were in it afterward. The gun itself can't tell them anything they don't already know, and they already know that it was Zimmerman's gun and Zimmerman who shot the kid.

But, as I said, of COURSE they weren't going to confiscate the gun for balistics testing because they had already made up their minds from the outset that it was self defense and everything about their "investigation" was a series of calculated gross "mistakes" to back up that pre-conceived scenerio. The "investigation" was criminal in itself.