Facebook, Google and Microsoft announced in recent days that they will both swap out their handgun emoji for a water gun, following the lead of Apple, Twitter, Samsung and others.

While gun control in real life may be a pipe dream, the same isn’t true for the world of emojis. Now Twitter has followed Apple, Samsung, and WhatsApp and is ditching the handgun emoji for a ...

In fall, when the new version of its operating system rolls out, what was previously a pistol emoji will be replaced by a green squirt gun. In its announcement about the new set of emojis , Apple ...

CUPERTINO (CBS SF) -- Apple has killed the gun emoji on its new iOS 10 update and replaced it with a toy. The latest operating system for iPhone and iPad users dropped Tuesday, with 70 new emoji ...

X changed its water pistol emoji to a normal firearm, six years after Twitter decided to follow the lead of other companies and get rid of its gun emoji. X does a mild controversy once again.

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.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft announced in recent days that they will both swap out their handgun emoji for a water gun, following the lead of Apple, Twitter, Samsung and others.

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 ...

Facebook, Google and Microsoft announced in recent days that they will both swap out their handgun emoji for a water gun, following the lead of Apple, Twitter, Samsung and others.