I did not know this bit of trivia from A Stun-Gun Maker Struggles To Shake Off Safety Concerns:
The Taser was invented in the late 1960s by Jack Cover, an advocate of alternatives to handguns. The name is an acronym for the Thomas A. Swift Electric Rifle, in honor of a series of science-fiction books about a teenage inventor.
I thought I’d cleverly make up a book title like Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle — but it’s a real book!