Attach weapon to a socket

Hi, I am trying to attach a weapon to a socket, but when I try it just snaps to the bottom of my character. Here are all the pictures I thought you would need. If you need more info just ask.

I’ve not gotten to look into 4.8 socket attaching yet but I would first verify there are no trailing/leading spaces before your socket name as this is a moderately common occurrence and will cause it to fail to find the bone. Will mess with this more when i get home.

Also make sure the pistol mesh is set to Movable and not Static. This is another common problem with doing it with preplaced objects.

Well the gun is a skeletal mesh/