This famous sidearm of everyone's favorite rogue was of course a modified "Broomhandle" Mauser. This particular gun was not the standard model however. The British prop house that built all of the A New Hope blasters and lightsabers reused one of their previous creations in the making of this prop. The gun was originally used by Frank Sinatra in the 1966 movie "The Naked Runner". In the movie Sinatra plays a former WWII sharpshooter who gets caught up in an intricate plot devised by British spies. He is armed with a Mauser sniper rifle that breaks down to fit in a briefcase. A long barrel was threaded to fit inside the short barrel of the Mauser body. This barrel, the scope, and stock were all discarded. The Mauser had a scope mounting bracket bolted to the left side of the gun so the lower body was replaced with that of another Mauser.

What looks like a machine gun flash suppressor mounted on the short barrel of the gun was actually nothing of the sort. It turns out this piece is actually a 1972 model fire extinguisher dispersion nozzle widely used in North America and Europe. A socket head cap screw held the nozzle in place.

The blaster's scope is a WWI era German sniper scope manufactured by Hensoldt Wetzlar, model Dialyt 3x. A German "claw" type mounting bracket attached the scope to the gun, make and model unknown.

The front grill of this prop was made from two halves of a model airplane engine part. The black plastic pieces were cut down to fit. One had the one ridge cut from each end and was placed with the larger ridges facing down. The second was cut down to 5 large ridges and placed underneath.