The EE-3 carbine rifle was a model of blaster carbine manufactured by BlasTech Industries.
The most notorious user of the EE-3 was Boba Fett during and after the Galactic Civil War, with the weapon being considered the bounty hunter's signature weapon. The EE-3 was also used by the bounty hunter Sugi and Kiera Swan during the Clone Wars. Thea Starros had one in her armory at the Starros family homestead. The protocol droid, Q9-0 during the time of the New Republic. After giving up bounty hunting to become the daimyo of his own gotra, as he believed bounty hunters and assassins like himself and Fennec Shand were better prepared to lead such groups than crime lords, Fett obtain a new EE-3 and continued to use it after his old one was cut by Luke Skywalker.
User in First Strike: Not part of a specific kit, the "bounty hunter" weapon was added as a pickup kit hidden on some maps.