Seen only briefly in A New Hope, this pistol is carried by Greedo, the character killed by Han Solo in a confrontation in the cantina. Han Solo’s BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster pistol on display at Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.Photo: Quarax CC BY-SA 4.0 Blas Tech DT-12 Heavy Blaster Pistol However, it remains recognizably a Mauser from 1896. The details on the frame have been improved and refined. In the second film, it has a custom-made, turned aluminum cone over the muzzle instead of the off-the-shelf black, perforated first version. In A New Hope, there was very little money available for props, but by the time of The Empire Strikes Back the pistol had evolved. The fact that the C-96 at Elstree had already been modified by removing the front sight to allow the fitting of a silencer and adding a mount for a telescopic sight made it even simpler to convert it into a futuristic-looking blaster.
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This pistol was first used in the 1968 movie The Naked Runner, where Frank Sinatra plays Sam Laker, an assassin who uses the C-96 with a silencer and a telescopic sight. To keep costs to a minimum, prop makers at Elstree used a C-96 that was already in their possession to create Han Solo’s blaster. These were combined with a telescopic sight and a cone over the muzzle to produce a distinctive and low-cost prop. If you look closely, you’ll see that half a piston from the model kit has been fixed to each side of the magazine on the Mauser and other parts from the kit have been glued to the frame above the grip. This was created by combining a non-firing Mauser C-96 ‘ Broomhandle’ with parts from the Revell Visible V-8 Model Kit. The most famous gun from the original Star Wars films is the blaster pistol used by swashbuckling smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford). A stormtrooper marches during the Training Day VI – 501st Spanish Garrison in Madrid, a yearly parade organized by an altruistic group in Spain. Because the first three Star Wars movies were filmed at Elstree Studios in London, many of the weapons used as the basis for props were British or readily available in Britain in the late 1970s.
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