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I left this thread to go bikeriding and I had a little time to think of the customers who would buy this item.
The answer is no one.
Anyone buying a trigger lock has only one thing on their mind and that is to keep it out of the hands of their relatives, young and old because trigger locks are useless against thieves.
The people who buy trigger locks are worried that someone in their family will do something stupid with their guns and that means they don't know how to teach their relatives not to do something stupid.
That leaves a group of people who want to take the easy way out and not teach their relatives so that also means that they need something familiar and easy to use and that means something with a key and lock. Something which is familiar to them. These people are not familiar with strange bullets that are single use, single application and need a special tool to remove. This group also will not use a special tool inside their firearm no more than they would attempt to do a trigger job.
They also will not use a product that will have a warning on it such as:

WARNING! USE OF THIS PRODUCT IN A SELF-DEFENSE CRISIS MAY LEAD TO INJURY OR DEATH!

I can name trigger locks, lock boxes, CAUTION, LOADED GUN sleeves, fake books, fake pictures on the wall, safes, and simply leaving the ammo in a different spot which are all better, safer and cheaper than this product. There isn't a group that can benefit from this item.
No one.

The answer is no one..

Good evening, 2.5. May suggest this guy may have one customer in mind? The government (any or all levels). They might buy it or pass a law requiring handgun owners to buy it. That is the scary part of these inventions.

To a power grabber, this invention may be a ticket to tyranny.

they don't know how to teach their relatives not to do something stupid.

This is exactly right. People are afraid to 'offend' others by talking straight to them and instructing them.

I have not read the whole thread, but 'Safety-Inventor' here isn't AlGore in disguise is he? I wonder if this guy voted for klintoon?

I left this thread to go bikeriding and I had a little time to think of the customers who would buy this item. The answer is no one.

I printed out some selected portions of this thread and took them to a local gun show on Saturday afternoon. There were a number of local gun dealers there with tables covered with new handguns, many temptingly priced. I spotted some guys who I've done business with before and stopped to talk with them for a while. I casually mentioned the safety-bullet, then watched the reaction. They looked at me kinda sideways, but pressed for the details. I told 'em all about how the thing is supposed to work, in both semi-autos and revolvers.

The responses were all of the "You have GOT to be kidding me" or "That is the DUMBEST damn thing I've ever heard!" variety. I pulled the folded pages of printed FreeRepublic thread from my pocket and unfolded them for all to peruse. They started passing the printout around, amid calls to guys over on the next aisles of "Hey, y'all! Come'n read this (expletive deleted).

Not one pistolero at the show seemed to warm to the idea, indeed, many asked that I pass along their suggestions concerning where the inventor might stick his "safety-bullet". This being a family-oriented forum, I believe I'll leave their exact words to the readers' imagination. Anyway, that's how the idea is playing down South. It ain't pretty.