NASCAR Hall of Fame owner Richard Childress donating one million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine

NASCAR Hall of Fame owner Richard Childress is offering to donate one million rounds of ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to help in the ongoing war with Russia, he said in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday. 

"I was listening the other day to (Ukrainian) President (Volodymyr) 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., and I said, 'Fred, we have to help these people. They need ammunition.' He stepped right up."

Childress, who is a member of AMMO, Inc.’s Board of Directors, has been in NASCAR for over five decades, first as a driver before becoming an owner in the early 1980s.

Dale Earnhardt Sr. famously drove Childress' No. 3 Chevy for the majority of his career before his fatal crash in the 2001 Daytona 500. 

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Childress, whose grandson, Austin Dillon, now drives the No. 3 for Richard Childress Racing, later told Fox News that the current situation in Ukraine is a "wakeup call for Americans on why we have to have our second amendment."

"To see the people in Ukraine fighting, it's terrible to see the lives that are being lost over there," he added. "We have to do all we can, and I felt with Ammo Inc. and myself, we were doing the right thing."

Childress said they planned to work with a private company to ensure the ammo gets to Ukraine as soon as possible.