FILE- In this June 28, 2013, file photo, Sanford police officer Timothy Smith holds up the gun that was used to kill Trayvon Martin, while testifying in the George Zimmerman trial, in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. The pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer Zimmerman used in the fatal shooting of Martin is going up for auction online. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File)
FILE- In this June 28, 2013, file photo, Sanford police officer Timothy Smith holds up the gun that was used to kill Trayvon Martin, while testifying in the George Zimmerman trial, in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla. The pistol former neighborhood watch volunteer Zimmerman used in the fatal shooting of Martin is going up for auction online. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Joe Burbank, Pool, File) Credit: ap file photograph

Orlando, Fla. — George Zimmerman’s second attempt at selling the 9 mm pistol used to kill Trayvon Martin doesn’t seem to be going as planned but the auction is still on — for now.

It appears that Internet trolls Thursday night took over the auction on UnitedGunGroup.com, placing bogus bids and raising the purported price to more than $65 million.

Zimmerman is a former Neighborhood Watch volunteer who was acquitted of second-degree murder after shooting and killing Martin, an unarmed black 17-year-old, during a struggle in 2012 in a Sanford neighborhood. Zimmerman said he was defending himself when he shot the teen.

He first listed the Kel-Tec PF-9 pistol for sale Wednesday night on GunBroker.com.

After an overwhelming amount of attention, GunBroker.com pulled the post just minutes before the auction was set to start at 11 a.m. Thursday and later released a statement the company wants “no part in the listing on our website.”

Hours later, though, Zimmerman confirmed that he started a new auction on UnitedGunGroup.com.

The post looked almost exactly the same with a starting bid of $5,000 and references to the gun being a piece of “American history.”

United Gun Group quickly released a statement saying as “long as Mr. Zimmerman (or any other UGG member) is obeying the letter of the law, his personal firearm sale will be permitted on our network.”

But soon after word got out, the website crashed and was down most of Thursday evening.

It was back up Friday morning with more than 1,000 bids, made by just 10 people. One person made seven bids in a row and less than a minute apart, each time outbidding himself and raising the the price a total of more than $25,000.

The price has held steady today at more than $65 million. The auction is scheduled to last until next week. It’s unclear whether United Gun Group has plans to reset the price.

The company said Friday that many people were affected by Martin’s killing, and that United Gun Group is “truly sorry to the Martin family for their loss.” But the group’s goal is “to do our part to defend liberty.”

In the auction listing, which includes photos of the gun from Zimmerman’s 2013 murder trial, Zimmerman says he is “honored and humbled” to sell the gun. He said it was recently returned from the U.S. Department of Justice and “has the case number written on it in silver permanent marker.”

“The purchaser is guaranteed validity and authenticity of the firearm,” the post reads.

Zimmerman said some of the proceeds from the gun sale would go toward fighting alleged violence against law enforcement by the Black Lives Matter movement and to stop anti-firearm rhetoric made by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Martin’s family released a statement Thursday saying the Trayvon Martin Foundation is focused on ending “senseless gun violence.”

“We are laser focused on furthering that mission,” it reads. “As such, the foundation has no comment on the actions of that person that murdered Trayvon.”