Star Wars: Why don't the Stormtroopers' armor protect them from their opponents?

It turns out that the standard weapons used by the Resistance can do this, even at low power. It is for this reason that the Empire made them illegal! This is also the case with Imperial blasters. On the other hand, the laser guns possessed by civilians are ineffective, which is why they are hardly ever seen on screen. Some species don't even need firearms to kill an Imperial soldier anyway, their physical strength being more than enough. This is the case of the Wookiees, these hairy colossi can neutralize or kill Stormtroopers despite their white shell! The Ewoks use their arrows to aim at the interstices between the armored parts of this protection, as we have seen in Return of the Jedi . A mystery solved … In another area, did you know that