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Fifty Million Round March Endorsements and the Fifty Million Round Photo Gallery Announced

May 27, 2000 (Boise, Idaho) The Fifty Million Round March [www.50mrmarch.com], a grassroots effort to energize the gun owners of America to take part, on a direct and individual basis, in influencing their elected representatives regarding the need to preserve their Second Amendment rights continues to gain momentum. Several notable individuals and organizations have endorsed the effort and are working together to make the first event, to be held on Father's Day, June 18th, a great success.

Fathers and their families, friends and neighbors will be gathering at gun ranges all over this nation to shoot simultaneously over fifty million rounds as a demonstration of their determination to preserve their Second Amendment rights. They will then write letters to their elected representatives directly charging them to not infringe upon those rights.

In support of this effort, J. J. Johnson, a well-known writer, speaker, and defender of the Second Amendment said that this effort, "asks not for us to travel to Washington, but to stay home. Not to cower under the pressure of 'political correctness,' but to stand and be counted. We here at the Sierra Times (an internet publication, of which Mr. Johnson is editor-in-chief) stand in proud support of this effort, as well as of those who will join in this -- the ultimate statement to Washington by the Real Men of America..."

L. Neil Smith, another well known and respected Second Amendment activist and writer, had these comments about the effort, "The Fifty Million Round March is an important, ongoing effort to preserve and expand the unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right of every man, woman, and responsible child to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission. It also represents an unignorable means of communication to those who previously would not hear us and who mistakenly believe they own us. Let them now learn differently."

Gary Fleetwood, an Executive Director from the Sporting Shooters Association of Australia [www.ssaa.org.au], whose group endorses the Fifty Million Round March in America, added his unique perspective when he stated, "Australian firearm owners have experienced the swift and savage consequences of firearm legislation which was implemented because of political expediency. I urge you to participate in this activity to indicate to politicians that law abiding firearm owners in the United States are unified and will deal swiftly at the ballot box with those who support the same draconian gun legislation as seen in Australia. The same legislation that is being promoted in the United States by individuals without roots who prostitute themselves for a social agenda."

In addition, two major activist groups, The Second Amendment Sisters [www.sas-aim.org], and The Tyranny Response Team [www.TRTeam.com], have also declared themselves as endorsing organizations of this new Second Amendment preservation effort.

In a further, major development Sierra Times [www.sierratimes.com] has announced plans to create an on-line "Fifty Million Round Photo Gallery" of fathers, their families, and their children exercising their Second Amendment rights at the various Fifty Million Round March events.

J. J. Johnson, Editor-in-Chief of Sierra Times, indicates that, "The goal of Sierra Times in support of the Fifty Million Round March: 100,000 fathers and their children together on Father's day at the gun range. An Internet Gallery of Armed Americans -- and their children. A message Washington will never forget -- and can't ignore."

Jeff Head, an organizer of the Fifty Million Round March, adds, "The Fifty Million Round March fully supports Sierra Times in creating an on-line storage medium of pictures of fathers and their children ... families and their children, exercising their Second Amendment rights together. This will send a most powerful message, a message not only to the politicians of today, but equally important, a message to the upcoming generation in America about a great hallmark of their liberty and how it is to be preserved."

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