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[Star Wars] Why do Han Solo and the Stormtroopers have big scopes on their guns? They never seem to be using them to aim.
gpt
At close ranges a blaster shot can be fired easily enough from the hip and get a bullseye. Longer ranges you'll want a scope as built in sights or notches really are only as good as your own eyesight. But usually stormtrooper blasters don't carry a scope but instead a camera where the scope would be mounted. This camera links with their helmet to create a targeting display on their visor. So while they're firing from the hip or chest they are seeing a reticule that indicates where they are aiming the barrel of the blaster similar to a videogame HUD.


And small rant stormtroopers don't have terrible aim. They're a nightmare on the battlefield with how accurate and deadly they are from training and how good their equipment is. In the OT they let the heroes escape by firing around them not at them. And in later films during hectic battles the heroes got lucky and were protected by the force to escape death. Only in a single scene involving scout troopers in the mandalorian and a comment by Mayfield is the meme of stormtrooper inaccuracy referenced in-universe.