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Retired NASCAR legend Richard Childress is taking matters into his own hands to help the people of Ukraine.
Childress, who has a net worth of $250 million, told Fox News that he has big plans of providing ammunition to the nation.
He is committed to donating one million rounds of ammo to the armed forces of Ukraine.
“I was listening the other day and heard President Zelenskyy say he didn’t want out, he wanted ammunition,” Childress said.
“I called my good friend Fred Wagenhals, who is the Chairman of AMMO, Inc., which is a publicly-traded company, POWW,” he continued.
“And I said, ‘Fred, we gotta help these people. They need ammunition.’ And he stepped right up.”
“He said, ‘We’ll do it,’ and now we’re turning our production to this as our number one priority,” Childress announced.
Childress is a member of AMMO’s board of directors.
“This is a wake-up call for America, and why we have to have our Second Amendment,” the NASCAR legend explained.
“We have 82 thousand, 82 million gun owners in America, and to see the people in Ukraine fighting — it’s terrible to see the lives that are being lost over there,” he said.
“We have to do all we can, and I felt with Ammo Inc. and myself, we were doing the right thing.”
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As far as the logistics of getting the ammo to the front lines, it’s not as easy as boxing it up and putting in on a plane.
“We’re working with some government agencies, but to get it there quickly, we’re going to work through a private company that will be working to get it in there,” Childress said. “The number one ammo they’re needing right now over there is the 7.62s, and that’s what we’re going to be producing.”
Childress’ NASCAR Cup Series team, Richard Childress Racing, and currently fields cars for Tyler Reddick, who won the first two stages at last weekend’s Auto Club 400 before a flat tire took him out of contention for the win, and his own grandson, Austin Dillon, who finished the race in second place behind Kyle Larson. RCR has won six Cup Series championships since it was founded in 1969.
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