Jack Cover who is a NASA researcher started to develop the taser in 1969. Once completed, the product was named. The word "taser" is an acronym for a title of a childhood hero from a book called Tom Swift's Electric Rifle. The taser was introduced to the US when the Public Defender used gunpowder and in 1976, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms considered the gunpowder to be a firearm.
In 1991, Taser's were supplied to the Los Angeles Police Department and failed to restrain Rodney King, due to a low battery.
In 1993, Rick Smith and his brother Tim decided to investigate on the tasers and what they had called at the time "safer use of force option [s] for citizens and law enforcement". The two brothers worked on the investigation as well as developing the original taser that Jack Cover had invented into a non firearm device which was then called an AIR TASER MODEL 34000 which at the time had an "anti - felon identification" which prevented criminals from picking it up and using it. This was seen as not a firearm and in 1999 Taser International then worked on developing the taser into a handgun shape which was then called the ADVANCED TASER M - SERIES SYSTEMS", this developed taser used a "patented neromuscular incapacitation technology". As time went by Taser International developed the taser gun and was released in 2006 which was called the TASER X26 which now uses "Shaped Pulse Technology".
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