Pistol emoji

[20] One day after the glyph alteration by Apple, Microsoft pushed an update to Windows 10 that changed its longstanding depiction of the pistol emoji as a toy ray-gun to a real revolver, telling Engadget: "We will continue to work with the Unicode Consortium to refine and update glyphs that reflects [sic] customer needs, feedback and supports a consistent system that works across the digital world".

[3] Insider's Rob Price said Apple's "plan to combat gun violence by changing an emoji" created the potential for "serious miscommunication across different platforms", and asked "What if a joke sent from an Apple user to a Google user is misconstrued because of differences in rendering?

"[21] Margaret Rhodes of Wired said that "Apple's squirt gun emoji hides a big political statement.

[33] In July 2024, the pistol emoji on X (formerly Twitter) was changed back to represent a gun, with site owner Elon Musk saying "Nerfing of the gun emoji matches rise of the woke mind virus, as a core tenet is equating fake harm with real harm.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown, in Reason Magazine, said "Cops were dispatched to Aristy's house, which they searched, finding marijuana and a firearm.

"[38] In 2016, a 22-year-old man in Drôme, France was jailed for 3 months and fined €1000 by a Valence court after sending his ex-girlfriend a gun emoji.