West Virginia is giving vaccinated residents a chance to win guns as part of a lottery aimed at boosting inoculation levels in the state.
Jim Justice, governor, announced several prizes geared towards West Virginia’s well-known outdoor lifestyle would be up for grabs in the state’s first vaccine lottery, to be drawn on June 20, which is both Father’s Day and the state’s 158th birthday.
Residents who had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine will have the chance to win one of five custom hunting rifles or one of five custom shotguns, Justice said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Other prizes in the June 20 draw include two custom pick-up trucks, five lifetime hunting and fishing licences and 25 weekend getaways to West Virginia state parks.
Rounding out the June 20 purse are the relatively more vanilla prizes of $1m in cash and two full scholarships to any West Virginia institution for residents aged 12 to 25. Justice teased the cash, scholarships and pick-up trucks last week, but did not provide details at the time of when those prizes would be awarded.
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