The mechanism. For a decade, Axon's playbook has been the same: a police-involved death makes headlines, a city faces litigation and consent-decree pressure, and the city buys body cameras and Evidence.com storage as legal insurance. That playbook is now migrating to Washington. CBP and ICE are under sustained oversight pressure — congressional letters, FOIA litigation, and bills like H.R. 4651 (the Immigration Enforcement Staff Body Camera Accountability Act) — over documented gaps in use-of-force recording. DHS's FY2026 appropriations include $20 million earmarked for body-worn cameras, CBP has already signed contracts to equip thousands of Border Patrol agents, and ICE posted a solicitation for roughly 17,800 new TASERs alongside camera and evidence-platform capacity. None of this requires a scandal to keep compounding — it's a slow federalization of a compliance standard that municipal police departments adopted years ago, now moving through DHS's roughly 60,000-officer enforcement footprint. That's a durable, recurring hardware-plus-SaaS revenue stream, not a one-time appropriation.