Do sniper rifles still get a hip fire damage reduction?

Always thought that was kinda dumb. A 50 cal to the face will make just as much damage hip shot as it will scoped. Just sayin. Guess its in the script.

well I put scope on most of the ar's because I only have that and ar stock mods and I theres certainly a difference in number of shots required for a kill, I can take out the anointed with a single clip when using the scope but it needs 2 to drop it when hip firing and 3 if i'm in cover and use blind fire.

also noticed that regardless of the weapon if you rapidly tap the fire button and don't do more than a couple of shots it seems to do more damage per shot

Okay, I think I can debunk this, it definitely doesn't apply to pistols.  I just did my first Solo Bronze to check with a Phalanx III (sadly, my strongest semi-auto non-SR weapon), and I could tell no difference in damage between hipfire and aiming.  I left a Sharpshooter alive on the second wave so its shields could regen, and tested multiple times how many shots it took to drop the shields.  7 shots, for both hipfire and aimed, and it looked like the same amount of shield left on the final shot both ways.

Wouldn't be the first time that a tooltip or loading screen tip was just flat wrong in a Mass Effect game.