Making a lantern carryable

[Celevan]

I'm trying to create a mod to make a portable lantern. I started out with using someone else's mod, but I didn't like the looks of the lantern. In the CK his lantern is listed under Lights>Weapons. I created a duplicate from that lantern, then I changed the nif to a CandleLantern that I liked; however it was a static object, and now my lantern was no longer listed under Lights>Weapon but under Static. In gameplay the lantern looks fine sitting on a surface, but when my character picks it up and tries to equip it, the lantern moves along with him, but it is on the floor between his feet. I assume it's because I used a nif from a static object, but I am wondering if there is any way to change the model from Static to Weapon.