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.

Originally, every firm showed the emoji as a firearm, except Microsoft, which designed it as a Buck Rogers-style ray gun. In 2016, however, Apple changed it from a firearm to a water pistol.

Think before you send that playful, emoji-laden text ... And in France, a 22-year-old man sent his ex-girlfriend a series of text messages with a gun emoji, ...

An X employee tweeted about the change last week, noting that the gun emoji has returned to 'its rightful form' on the X website. It will happen on mobile 'soon,' says Elon Musk.

But emoji are language, and the presence of a gun emoji doesn’t entail violence any more than the word gun does. One may refer to guns, at times, when intending violence—in one case, ...

Although emoji are standardized by an organization called the Unicode Consortium, each platform is free to implement its own image for each one. In 2016, Apple changed its depiction of the gun ...

Heads up, Apple users: the pistol emoji available on Apple devices soon will be no more. Apple said Monday that the pistol emoji will be removed from the keyboard and replaced with a lime green ...

Seriously, guys, think before you emoji. Search. ... what happened to a 22-year-old man from south-east France who has been sentenced to six months in prison for sending a gun emoji to his ...

They started a campaign last year demanding the tech company to get rid of the gun and pistol emoji. Apple said more than 100 new and redesigned emojis will be coming this fall.