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I am curious about these interacting. I saw a discussion about it on a different forum, but no consensus was reached.

Return Fire says "When target friendly Faction model is targeted by an enemy ranged attack, after the attack is resolved the affected model can make one normal melee or ranged attack, then Return Fire expires. Return Fire lasts for one round."

Shield Guard says "Once per round, when a friendly model is directly hit by a ranged attack during your opponent's turn while withing 2" of this model, this model can become the target of the attack and be automatically hit instead."

So if Return Fire is on a model with Shield Guard (such as a Sentinel) and a friendly model within 2" of the Sentinel is shot by a ranged attack, would the Sentinel then be able to return fire as it becomes the new target?

Yes. Like you said yourself, the Sentinel is the new target so it can shoot back as per the Return Fire rule.

2nd Part to this question. Would the original target cease counting as targeted then? Or would it also count as having been targeted? Meaning if Return Fire was on the Shield Guard model and the Shield Guarded model, would they BOTH get to Return Fire?

Wait a second, you have the definition of Shield Guard wrong:

Once per round, when a friendly model is directly hit by a ranged
attack during your opponent’s turn while within 2˝ of this
model, you can choose to have this model directly hit instead.
This model is automatically hit and suffers all damage and
effects. This model cannot use Shield Guard if it is incorporeal,
knocked down, or stationary.

As such I amend my original reply, the shield guard model is not the Target of the attack, the original model is, so only the original model can use Return Fire.

What I posted for Shield Guard is the exact rules from Sentinel in the Cygnar book though...

Domine Nox wrote:
What I posted for Shield Guard is the exact rules from Sentinel in the Cygnar book though...

And Shield Guard has been Errata'd.

Well, at least that clears it all up then. Thanks for the timely replies.