As an aside, any company stupid enough to try and actually sell a smart gun that was not 100% reliable is asking for serious, and in my opinion, well-deserved bankrupting lawsuits.
Yep, and it has the entirely unintended consequence of ensuring that no firearms manufacturer will touch the research with a 10-foot pole lest they chill their own future sales. Hence the government will have to do the research...and we know how good the government is at coming up with new technologies...