Han Solo's DL-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol From 'Star Wars' Is Going Up For Auction. Included is a letter about the provenience of the blaster which is really interesting to read.

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Hmmm if you read through the text they describe how it was built from parts which they believed had been used to make 3 of those prop weapons for the movie but compare it with the gun in Han Solo's hand in this original photo.

https://spacequotations.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/han-solo-quotes.jpg

The scope is similar but the mount is not even close. In the text they say the original was a probably a complicated slide on dovetail which they did not try to replicate but you can see in the picture it was not that. It was a side mount bolted on with a single bolt that held the scope out to the side and if you look at the gun, you can see why the scope would have had to be side mounted because the ejection port is on the top and as they used real blank rounds in the movie the gun had to be able to function.