 The Golden Gun consisted of a number of gold components from Pistols  Scaramangas personal effects. These included: A gold 15 x 1.5 cm  fountain pen which became the gun barrel; a 8 x 4 cm gold cigarette  lighter which formed the hammer and bullet chamber; a 10 x 6 cm gold  cigarette case doubled as the guns magazine hand grip (or gun butt  or handle); whilst a solid gold cuff link from his shirt cuff was  adjoined to the cigarette case turned into the guns trigger. In the  movie, custom made 23 carat golden bullets with nickel trace  elements were manufactured for the gun by Eastern expert Portugese  gunsmith Lazar.