Attorney General
Eric Holder has confiscated
George Zimmerman’s gun. Even though
Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury in the death of
Trayvon Martin, the
Justice Department on Thursday ordered the
Sanford police to put a hold on the evidence from the trial, which includes the Kel Tek 9mm handgun.
It is not clear what federal law or legal procedure allows
Mr. Holder to stop a police chief in Florida from returning a firearm to an innocent man.
The federal government has the power to infringe on Second Amendment
rights only when a person falls into the categories of prohibited
people, which includes felons, dangerously mentally ill and domestic
abusers.
There is no reasonable cause for the
Justice Department
to hold the evidence, since it has already been examined, given a DNA
test and used in trial. What more can the federal government find out
from holding
Mr. Zimmerman’s gun?
And the investigation that
Mr. Holder is pursuing — whether this was a racially-based civil rights case — has nothing to do with the weapon used.
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