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USA Today Network Lori Grisham, USA TODAY Network 4:40 p.m. EDT August 18, 2015

Reports surfaced Thursday about a "Muslim-free" gun store in Inverness, Florida, that is now selling prints of the Confederate battle flag painted by George Zimmerman. USA TODAY

George Zimmerman painted this Confederate flag image to support a Florida gun shop owner that declared a "Muslim-free zone."(Photo: Florida Gun Supply)

A gun store in Florida sued for declaringa"Muslim-freezone"is now selling prints of a Confederate flagpainted by George Zimmerman.

Zimmerman, who was found not guilty of murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martinin 2013, painted the Confederate flag when he heard gun store owner AndyHallinan is being sued by a Florida chapter of theCouncil onAmerican-Islamic Relations, according to a statement on Florida Gun Supply's website.

The prints are about $50 each and all are signed by Zimmerman.Everyone who buys one will be entered 50 timesin a free drawing to win the original painting. The Confederate flag is painted over an American flag and on the back of the original painting the outline of the underpainting can be seen, according to the store's website.

Florida Gun Supply posted a "mini-documentary"explaining the reason for selling the prints, saying that the store isfighting back against the "cultural cleansing" of American history.

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"They're starting with the Confederate flag, but then they're going to remove statues, rename schools, rename streets and try to cleanse the history in America," Hallinan said in the video.

Much of the video blames newsmedia for creating fear and dividing the American public.Hallinan cites Zimmerman's case,who claimed self-defense in 2012after he shot Trayvon, an unarmed African-American teenager, as an example of skewed media coverage.

"(Mass media) intentionally incited hatred and race when the entire issue wasn't about race in the first place," Hallinan said.

In the video, Zimmerman said he contacted Hallinan after the gun store owner gained media attention for publishing a video online that said he would no longer serve Muslim customersfollowing ashootingin Chattanooga,Tenn., that left five service members dead. The gunman, 24-year-oldMohammod Abdulazeez, was Muslim.

Florida Gun Supply in Inverness, Fla., has declared its store is a "Muslim-free zone" in response to the shooting in Chattanooga, Tenn. Video provided by Newsy Newslook

Zimmermanpainted the Confederate flag in Hallinan's honor to help him raise money for legal fees,according to the video. A statement on the store's website said they plan to split the proceeds.

The Confederate flagprint"exposes the twin evils of racism and Islamophobia," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper told USA TODAY Network.

"I just think its a clear indication of the overlap between traditional racism targeting African Americans in the form of a Confederate flag and Islamophobia," he said.

CAIR identifies itself as the "nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization." In January, the group appealed to the United Arab Emirates to be removed from that nation's list of designated terrorist groups. The group is not on the U.S. list of terrorist groups.

In 2009, however, a federal judge said in a ruling unsealed a year later that CAIR was tied to Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza and which is on the U.S. terror list."The government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR" and other groups "with Hamas," U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis said in his July 1, 2009, ruling.

Hallinan told USA TODAY Network in an interview that so far the gun shop hasexperienced a "huge outpouring of support" from the public in response to the Zimmerman print.

Hallinan was not sure how many prints had sold, but said the number right now is fewer than 20.

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