Bingo is popular in Lancaster County. The options for bingo enthusiasts range from basket bingo and cash bingo to designer handbag bingo, gift card bingo and Lego bingo, to name just a few.
Now, local bingo enthusiasts can add gun bingo to the list.
A gun bingo event, featuring firearms as prizes, will be held Sunday, Jan. 28, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Millersville Borough. Proceeds will benefit Help the Fight, a Mountville-based nonprofit that helps county residents with costs associated with screening for breast cancer, as well as what the organization calls “gap funding,” helping breast cancer patients pay other medical and household bills during treatment.
For those who might be looking to join in on the bingo action, the event’s 275 tickets are already sold out. In fact, they sold out in just over two hours, according to David Charles, founder and director of operations for Help the Fight. The event is in its second year, and each year the tickets were snapped up in a flash.
Charles, who is not a “bingo person,” wasn’t sure how the event would be received last year, but a quick sell-out and the $35,000 the event generated for his organization were a fair gauge of community enthusiasm.
“People love to get together, have a couple of beers, eat barbecue and play bingo,” Charles said.
And in Lancaster County, many people love guns.
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Help the Fight runs an annual purse bingo that draws a decent crowd, Charles said. They also have a lot of volunteers who are hunters, marksmen and gun enthusiasts, so combining the interest in guns with the interest in bingo made sense for the nonprofit.
The event will include 12 rounds of bingo and one bonus round. Two of the rounds will have cash prizes, and the remaining winners will receive either a handgun or a long rifle.
While the full list of guns is not yet available, Charles said the bonus round gun would be a Henry Golden Boy — a long rifle with a signature brass receiver.
Gun bingo isn’t as straightforward as winning a game and taking home a gun. You have to be 21 to participate, and people who win guns have to pick them up later at a certified gun dealer after passing a background check.
The event also includes basket raffles, games of chance and a 50/50 lottery.
Despite selling only 275 tickets for the event, the group received interest from 500 to 600 people. Anyone who missed the January gun bingo will get a second chance later this year.
Help the Fight will run a hybrid bingo — handguns and handbags bingo — on Sunday, May 5. The event will again be held at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7294, just outside Millersville Borough, with the same number of tickets available.
For more information, visit Help the Fight’s Facebook page or visit helpthefight.org.
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