Armed Citizens Project To Give Away Free Shotguns In Orlando Neighborhood (VIDEO)

About 20 miles south of where self-appointed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a controversial nonprofit group is advertising free shotguns to residents.

WESH reports members of the Armed Citizens Project have been going door-to-door in the Sunshine Gardens area of Orlando, leaving flyers promising free shotguns they say will cut down on crime.

"The Armed Citizen Project of Florida is seeking volunteers to reduce crime in your neighborhood by arming volunteer households with one free shotgun per household," reads a flyer with the headline "Deterring Crime By Empowering Neighborhoods."

Sunshine Gardens is not known as a high-crime area, according to the Orlando Sentinel, and some residents scoffed at the idea.

"That's what really cracked me up," resident Cathy Rodgers told the paper. "I've never felt unsafe in my neighborhood. I just feel like they're preying on people's fears."

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