Thingiverse ditches downloadable designs at the urging of Manhattan District Attorney, who wants more companies to do ...

The Unicode Consortium is a nonprofit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting software standards and data, and it ...

In 2010, the unicode consortium approved of a new emoji called Pistol. And companies like Apple added it to their platforms. Most of them created realistic designs for the emoji, modeled after ...

In response, many states have implemented universal background check laws. By requiring gun buyers to obtain a permit prior to purchasing a firearm, or by requiring private sellers to conduct ...

Parents sue elite private school for expelling fifth-grader over squirt-gun emoji, rap lyrics The Curtis School, whose alumni include children of David and Victoria Beckham, is the target of a ...

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.

Six years after swapping the gun emoji for a green-and-orange water pistol, X has reversed course and reinstated the original icon. As The Verge reports, an X employee tweeted about the change ...

Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol.

It has been discovered that Twitter (formerly Twitter) has changed the water gun emoji '🔫' to display an emoji designed to look like a real gun instead of a water gun. X Redesigns Water Pistol ...

President Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday aimed at "increasing the number of background checks conducted before firearm sales," per a White House statement. The administration called ...

Commentary Nervous System: The Great Emoji War Emojis are ubiquitous today, but they were once brand new communications territory. The differences in how they rendered on different operating ...

In the vast library of emoji, one has been the subject of overwhelming scrutiny and debate. Here's everything you need to know about the gun emoji.