You can gift a gun to a close relative - but you may be right - not to a grandson. (So - gift to the dad that then gifts to the grandson).
However, if you want to go shooting with your son or grandson, you can’t loan them your gun at the shooting range! Gifts are okay, transfers (not just sales) are illegal.
But - like one poster said - who will enforce it? I suppose the gun range could be held liable somehow, and will be forced to come up with some way of enforcing it.
“However, if you want to go shooting with your son or grandson, you can’t loan them your gun at the shooting range! Gifts are okay, transfers (not just sales) are illegal.”
As I read it, transfers at a shooting range are only legal if the range is one approved by the local government; and the transfers consist of transfers of firearms that are permanently kept at the range.
Much of this will likely be settled in the courts...
(f) The temporary transfer of a firearm (i) between spouses or domestic partners;
(ii) if the temporary transfer occurs, and the firearm is kept at all times, at an established shooting range authorized by the governing body of the jurisdiction in which such range is located;
Hypothetically: You can have “gifted” a weapon to anyone born before the initiative goes into effect. The burden of proof that this is otherwise will be impossible for prosecution and the defense for the under 18 at gifting would be that this was to be “handleable” under adult supervision at such as as deemed capable.
Hypothetically: Another means would be to take either a certain subset, or all of ones weapons, and roll them into an NFA trust and list those whom they could possibly be either lent or gifted to as beneficiaries.