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Getty 062013 GeorgeZimmerman?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1377285983187Gary W. Green-Pool/Getty Images(COCOA, Fla.) — George Zimmerman, who is already packing a pistol, toured a gun maker’s factory this week and asked whether he could buy a shotgun.

Zimmerman, acquitted a month ago of killing teenager Trayvon Martin with a Kel-Tec 9 mm pistol, toured the Kel-Tec plant on Thursday in Cocoa, Fla. The plant is about an hour’s drive from Sanford, the community where Martin was killed.

Zimmerman, 29, took a tour of the assembly plant and asked about the legality of buying a shotgun and smiled in a photograph with an employee, according to TMZ, which first reported the visit.

Representatives for Kel-Tec were not immediately available for comment, but the Kel-Tec website says weapons are not sold at the plant. The site also states that they do not give tours, but that “special arrangements can sometimes be made for military, law enforcement, or educational purposes only.”

Zimmerman’s brother, Robert, told ABC News in an email that the visit is a “non-story.”

“Grown men buy guns or shop for guns or visit gun manufacturers every day,” he said.

In the days after his acquittal, Zimmerman’s lead attorney, Mark O’Mara , said that his client had no regrets about carrying a gun the night he killed Martin and that Zimmerman intended to rearm himself and “needs it now more than ever.”

“There are a lot of people out there who actually hate him, though they shouldn’t,” said O’Mara. He added that Zimmerman may need to protect himself from potential outside threats.

Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury of six women who found he acted in self-defense when he shot the unarmed teenager in February 2012.

The verdict produced an outcry ranging from Martin’s parents to protests in cities across the country.

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