What Does Axon Enterprise (AXON) Actually Do? Inside the Company Behind the TASER and the Police Body Camera
Most people know the name Axon Enterprise (Nasdaq: AXON) for one product: the TASER. But the company that stun guns built has quietly turned itself into something closer to a public-safety software company that happens to also make hardware. Axon is a Nasdaq-100 and S&P 500 component, and its most recent quarterly results show a business that now leans more on recurring cloud subscriptions than on weapon sales. Here's what the company actually does, where its revenue comes from, and who is actually using its products — based only on figures Axon has itself disclosed in SEC filings and investor press releases. From Air Taser to Axon — A Company That Renamed Itself Twice Axon's story starts in 1993, when brothers Patrick "Rick" Smith and Thomas Smith incorporated Air Taser, Inc. in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company later became Taser International in 1998, and in April 2017 it rebranded a second time to Axon Enterprise — a name meant to cover the company's growin...