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.

X has dropped the "water pistol" emoji, which was depicted as a colorful and harmless looking child's toy — and replaced it with an emoji depicting an actual gun. The announcement was originally ...

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags. But not any longer ...

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. The existence of any particular emoji is down to the Unicode ...

Update (2/23/2015): New beta releases of OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3 have filled in previously empty placeholder icons with new emoji, as seen above. Faces and body parts that were previously light ...

While the featured addition in yesterday's OS X 10.10.3 developer seed was the new Photos app, Apple is addressing other issues with the forthcoming update, and one of these focus areas is emoji ...

It’s an important reminder that while cross-platform emoji harmony will likely never happen, it never really has to, just so long as everything makes sense within the same app. The Grinning Face ...