Both of these gun emojis can be seen in an archived version of Unicode's original list, as it appeared on May 14, but neither rifle nor pentathlon appeared in the Unicode 9.0 emoji chart on the ...

Unicode character U+1F52B had been assigned to a left-facing pistol. ... activists took to Twitter to implore Apple to remove the gun emoji altogether. In August 2016, ...

Emoji are universal insofar as they share common designations across platforms (U + 1F52B is the water pistol), which are decided by the Unicode Consortium. But it’s up to each platform owner to ...

It’s not the first time Apple has opted against a gun emoji: In June, Apple asked the Unicode Consortium to exclude a scoped shooting rifle from the upcoming set of emojis. Unicode complied, and ...

Emojipedia, a resource put together by Unicode Emoji Subcommittee member Jeremy Burge, meanwhile, describes the emoji as a “a gun emoji, more precisely a pistol. A weapon that has potential to ...

When it comes to the gun emoji, Apple was the first platform to swap it for the water pistol back in 2016. It also lobbied the Unicode Consortium to reject a rifle emoji.

Google and Microsoft have already included Unicode 9.0 emoji in the OS updates they're releasing this fall, and Apple will presumably do the same when it's ready. Related Stories ...

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 ...

Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10.

The Unicode Consortium has approved of 69 new emoji. Emoji 5.0 — which is slated to release in June 2017 — includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people.

Gun control measures have stalled in the legislature repeatedly. But there does appear to be one place where gun control is catching on: the ever-more-political world of emoji. On Monday, Apple ann… ...