Any smart technology is an added failure rate in addition to those failure modes.

Arguing that something might fail and therefore any additional changes that can introduce failure modes are therefore okay is the absolute worst claim to hear from any engineer. You can’t possibly be trying to make this argument in good faith.

A misfire or a jam are just as possible on a "smart" gun. Again, this is not a unique standard being applied unfairly.

Gun owners already treat reliability as a major factor in purchasing decisions. Whether that reliability is hardware or software is moot, as long as the thing goes "bang" when expected.

It's not hard to see the parallels to LLMs and other software, although ostensibly with much lower stakes.