Are gun locks different than child locks?

Are gun locks different than child locks?

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Basically, a child lock, a gun lock, is the same sort of thing. It's something to make it less likely that a gun's going to be used by the wrong person. There's other things that guns can do, too. You can possibly set guns up where it has to respond to a specific fingerprint, that shows that there's a bullet in the chamber. There's a number of safety mechanisms that can be built-in for guns. But again, nothing is required from the manufacturer. More is required, again, for the toy gun than there is for the real gun in this country.