Elon Musk has brought about a lot of change to the platform formerly known as Twitter. Most notably, he dropped the Twitter name for "X." He completely stripped verification of all of its meaning.

But the emoji hadn’t depicted realistic guns for years. Until now. Broni calls the change one of the most significant updates to emoji design in years. Critics of the platform’s direction ...

The result is a complete set of Unicode-compatible cowboy and pensive_cowboy emojis ... Alternatively, consider this emoji gun that shoots small foam emojis at other people to delight or annoy ...

Although emoji are standardized by an organization called the Unicode Consortium, each platform is free to implement its own image for each one. In 2016, Apple changed its depiction of the gun ...

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.

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 ...