If any technology can help then why not. How about a fingerprint reader before the gun can actually work. Hell, swipe a gun registration card to unlock the loading chamber.
The "smart" gun technology has been tried before by several gun manufacturer unsuccessfully using a transponder that only while in close proximity would the firearm be able to fire.....and it wasn't to prevent theft that it was looked into.....It was in the event a crook were able to disarm a police officer and use his own gun against him/her...
They found that if the transponder was strong enough, the crook may be able to fire the gun within three feet ....too weak and the officer may not be able to fire his own gun....
A technology has existed for about 25 years has existed using a magnetic ring that you would wear on both hands...(for obvious reasons)......making the firearm useless unless you are wearing the ring...
It was developed so you could have your firearm fully loaded in your dresser drawer fully loaded at all times and your kid couldn't accidentally shoot himself with it....
But it was only feasible on large frame guns..( I won't go into the makes and models that this device could be installed onto because frankly ..it was so long ago that I had forgotten about it until just now)
But frankly...Its immaterial because all the reasons that anti-gun activists give for such devices that make the firearms unaffordable except to the filthy rich don't mean a thing to the crook who will simply disable that device when he steals it..
By the way I searched high and low for a device such as Montel william was referring too and can't find a thing.........if someone spots something....let me know......otherwise my first opinion on it will be right....That it was just a talk show host blowing hot air..........:lol: