It’s unclear whether or not the group would be willing to consider less extreme measures such as requiring background checks in order to be able to have a gun emoji on your phone. There have ...

When NYAGV originally pushed Apple to get rid of the gun emoji, they did so because they wanted Apple to send a message to Congress to enact mandatory background checks.

Apple changed the design of the gun emoji into a squirt gun back in 2016. At the time, it was a controversial choice, but tech companies have since followed suit.

I know they mean well, but Apple replacing a gun emoji with a water pistol is pointless. And there's still a bomb emoji. — Mohammed A (@moseywosey) August 2, 2016 ...

Apple will replace the pistol emoji with a squirt gun in the upcoming release of iOS 10. News. Home Page ... “Any vendor is free to change how they design each emoji, no matter how confusing it ...

On July 18, X employee @yacineMTB announced that they had made the change back to the gun emoji on the X website. "Fixed on web, soon to be fixed in rendering on mobile!" Elon Musk said in a reply ...

Apple has swapped out an emoji in what the Guardian describes as a reflection of "growing despair in America and worldwide" over gun violence. Starting in September, a neon-green water gun will ...

When Apple users update to iOS 10, the pistol emoji will be gone, and in its place they’ll find a lime green water gun. Where there once was a deadly firearm, there's now a cartoon of one of the ...

Below: Apple’s water gun. Below: Twitter’s water gun. The decision to replace an emoji of a weapon to a child’s toy was seen as a political statement when Apple in 2016 rolled out its own ...

Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green and orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week.