2015 Buckeye Bash

a sponsored gun show with Dinner, Auctions, and TONS O' GUNS!

We're holding the festivities at the Villa Milano Banquet & Conference Center in Columbus, Ohio. And we promise that you're in for a treat.

Enjoy a great meal. Hear a short speaking program, featuring Keynote Speaker Nikki Goeser (more info below). And bid on guns, gear, and a wide assortment of merchandise, including artwork, collectibles, knives, jewelry and more in our live and silent auctions!

Plus we're once again running our popular TONS O' GUNS raffle game. We'll have tons of guns on display courtesy of Black Wing Shooting Center, including an assortment of rifles, shotguns, pistols, and revolvers.

TONS O' GUNS works just like the wall of guns raffle you've seen before, but we'll have the actual guns for you to handle, drool over, and WIN! Each chance is only $20 and you can buy as many chances and play as many games as you like. So bring some extra cash!

We'll also have new games and raffles this year for more chances to win.

NOTE: All firearms transfers will be handled on-site at the event so you can go home with your new toys.

Social Hour - 5:00 pm to 6:45 pm
Private Sponsor Reception - 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Opening Remarks - 6:45 pm to 7:00 pm
Dinner - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Speaking Program - 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Live Auction - 8:30 pm - 9:15 pm
Raffle Drawing & Closing Remarks - 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm

Tickets: $45 Earlybird / $50 after Jan. 1, 2015
Sponsorships: $100 per person (VIP seating)
Passes available for private reception at $250 each

Online registration with credit card only. No checks please!
All proceeds benefit Buckeye Firearms Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization.

CANCELLATIONS & REFUNDS: For most of our events, you may cancel and receive a refund (less a $10 processing fee) up to 3 weeks before an event. No refunds within 3 weeks of an event. For PAC events, all sales are final.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Nikki Goeser, author of Denied a Chance: How Gun Control Helped a Stalker Murder my Husband.

Nikki Goeser had a life most people only dream about. She was married to a great guy named Ben, and they were deeply and genuinely in love. Attractive, intelligent, and determined, Nikki graduated from university with a degree in psychology, she worked at a local college by day, and, at night, Nikki and Ben ran a professional Karaoke company that provided entertainment for several of Nashville’s clubs and bars. Then, in one terrible moment on April 2, 2009, her life was changed forever.

Nikki first began to legally carry a gun after the kidnapping and murder of two University of Tennessee students in 2007, but, on that rainy April night two years later, she was forced to lock her gun in the glove compartment of her car due to the Tennessee law that forbade citizens with a carry permit from bringing their weapon into a restaurant or bar. Nikki was forced to watch in horror as a man who had been stalking her pumped six bullets from a .45 caliber pistol into Ben Goeser, ending his life and shattering Nikki’s existence.

Since that terrible day, Nikki has worked tirelessly to eliminate the dangerous no carry zones that protect no one and make it easier for criminals to victimize law abiding citizens.