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(33,982 posts)Consumers actually seek some of those features, and some manufacturers cater. Taurus has an internal locking system for some handguns, much better than a trigger lock, in that it's more effective than an external third party lock. But it's a maintenance issue and a failure point, so it's not universally popular with customers.
Electronic locks are simply unworkable vaporware at the moment. It's not discouraged, it's infeasible. Progress has been made on crude brute force efforts, but until you see police and military adopting the technology (officers being shot with their own weapons is a serious issue) then you might actually consider it viable for the market.
To date, it's not. It's crapware/vaporware.
You know what's worse than a gun that goes bang when you don't want it to? One that Doesn't go bang when you expect it to.