A week after filing for divorce, Shellie Zimmerman called 911 Monday and said her husband, the acquitted shooter of Trayvon Martin, had threatened her and her father with a gun, The Associated Press reports.

AP via Washington Post:

LAKE MARY, Fla. — George Zimmerman’s wife says on a 911 call that her estranged husband punched her father in the nose, grabbed an iPad out of her hand and smashed it and threatened them both with a gun.

Shellie Zimmerman said Monday on the 911 call that she was scared because she didn’t know what George Zimmerman is capable of doing.

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If what’s being reported is true, it raises the question: At what point does a person surrender the right to bear arms?

— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer

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