My favorite gun as an Ithaca 16 gauge shotgun. My wife gave it to her cousin and told me he was out of work and needed it for deer hunting. The SOB sold it a week after receiving it.
Back in the ‘80s my Dad gave away three long guns to two of my cousins, on cousin got the Winchester lever action ( I don’t know the model), and the other cuz got the Browning Sweet 16 and the Arisaka that Dad brought home from Japan after the War. All I wanted was the Arisaka, my brother wanted the other two. All we ended up with were two bayonets for the Arisaka. Two of Dad’s sisters wanted those guns for their boys, and he did it to shut them up.