A gun equipped with a grappling line that could magnetically secure itself to a target was known as a magnetic grappling gun. During the infiltration of the Governor's mansion on the Mid Rim planet of Haidoral Prime in 3 ABY, a Rebel Alliance squad commanded by First Sergeant Hazram Namir employed a magnetic grappling gun to access a balcony of the mansion from a rooftop garden located nearby. Pol Andrissus positioned the gun within a flower bed.
Alexander Freed included a magnetic grappling gun in his 2015 novel, Battlefront: Twilight Company.