Contact:
Joanie Fischer, cwpatriot-joanie@redrose.net

JPFO (Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership) Endorsement,
Collaboration with KeepAndBearArms.com

June 6, 2000 (Boise, Idaho) Aaron Zelman, Executive Director of the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) [www.jpfo.org] announced today his organization's strong endorsement of the 50 Million Round March [www.50mrmarch.com], a grassroots effort to energize gun owners across the nation in support of their 2nd amendment rights.

On Father's Day, June 18th, and at other times throughout the year, Fathers and their families, friends and neighbors will gather at gun ranges all over the country to shoot simultaneously over fifty million rounds as a demonstration of their determination to preserve their second amendment rights. At the events, they will write letters to their elected representatives charging them to not infringe upon those rights.

In commenting on this effort, Zelman said, "At this point in American history, the 50 Million Round March is the right idea at the right time. This effort is a very sound but simple idea to send a direct message to all of those who despise liberty. May any such individuals hear the volleys at the firing ranges and quake in their jack-boots."

Another respected 2nd amendment organization, the Second Amendment Sisters (SAS) [www.sas-aim.org], who held a number of well attended 2nd amendment rallies around the nation on Mother's Day, May 14, 2000, has also endorsed the 50 Million Round March. The management of SAS released the following statement regarding their unqualified endorsement of this effort:

"We are pleased to support the idea of fathers and their children coming together to enjoy a family holiday by participating in a shared interest, and what for many is an honored tradition that has been passed through the generations. These are the families who have wrongly had the burden of the so-called "violence epidemic" placed on their shoulders. On the contrary; it is they who are taking the time to supervise their children in the safe handling of firearms, and to teach them both the physical and moral consequences of abuse and carelessness. They are a shining example of the value of a caring, attentive parent, and we should all take a lesson from them."

The continued collaboration between the 50 Million Round March and J.J. Johnson's Sierra Times [www.sierratimes.com] on the compilation of a "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 continues to garner enthusiastic support. The goal of this collaboration is to gather one hundred thousand fathers and their children and families on Father's day at the gun range, and to compile an historic record of their commitment to their inherently American right to bear arms, as well as the American gun owners' ongoing commitment to safe and responsible gun handling.

In a further development, the 50 Million Round March also has announced today a collaboration with KeepAndBearArms.com (KABA) [www.keepandbeararms.com], one of the foremost Gun Rights sites on the Internet. In this collaboration, KABA will provide all graphic art for future 50 Million Round March events on July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, New Year's Day and President's Day. Each of these provided graphics will, in turn, displays a credit to KeepAndBearArms.com.

In collaborating with and endorsing the 50 Million Round March, Angel Shamaya, Executive Director, KeepAndBearArms.com, said, "The 50 Million Round March has been a long time coming. After decades of freedom-choking gun legislation and immoral demonization, gun owners are making a social and political statement, the essence of which is: 'Aim somewhere else; we're the good guys, American gun owners refuse to be disarmed and put in a position to be victimized'. This is a strong and timely message, particularly when delivered 50 Million Rounds at a time. KeepAndBearArms.com fully endorses this message and the 50 Million Round March effort which is producing it."

Jeff Head [jeffhead@50mrmarch.com], a principle organizer of the 50 Million Round March, in commenting on today's announcements, said the following, "I am honored and humbled by the continued growth and endorsement of this simple idea to energize and capture the imagination of the every day gun owners in this nation. If any appreciable percentage of those 80+ million Americans get involved, and it is our hope and prayer that they will get involved, then the debate on this issue will be over. Thanks so much to Aaron, SAS and Angel for your involvement on behalf of this foundational right we enjoy as Americans, and for your endorsement and support of the 50 Million Round March".

[Please note: Organizers of the 50 Million Round March event are scheduling talk radio interviews for the rest of June and July at this time. Any interested parties are requested to direct inquiries to Joanie Fischer [cwpatriot-joanie@redrose.net]

Joanie Fischer
Media Liaison
Fifty Million Round March

For more information, please visit www.50mrmarch.com