Yeah, not exactly well worded. I assume that the "backfire" happens in the cybernetics of the enemies, rather than their guns. Which also makes the whole idea of getting completely electrocuted and paralyzed make more sense as well - how exactly do you electrocute someone by making their gun backfire?. After all, all of the reaper's troops (including collectors) are basically cybernetic zombies, and Cerberus troops aren't that far behind. The Geth/Atlas/Turrets of course don't have organic muscles, so the paralyzing doesn't work on them. That's my theory at least.
Interesting Watsonian explanation. The Doylist explanation is probably a simplified algorithm: "If hackable then hack, else trigger Backfire as soon as they enter attacking animation".
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