1. The firearm is going to be a bolt action hunting rifle.
2. Yes, my BIL is an honest to goodness, card carrying, legal resident of Texas.
3. He lives at home with his parents, not in a dorm. Storage of the rifle will be at home, locked up.
4. Think we’re gonna go ahead and do my original plan of either sending him money and having him buy his own gift, or I fly down and give him money and he buys his own gift.
I appreciate all the responses.