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.

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.

Apple will replace its handgun emoji with a water pistol when it releases its iOS 10 operating system later this year.

Following the lead of several other big tech companies, including Apple, Samsung, and Twitter, Google has changed the gun emoji on its platform to a water pistol.

Apple is enforcing a little gun control as it rolls out its latest operating system: The revolver emoji will soon be replaced by a water pistol.

The tech giant Google follows companies like Apple and Samsung in rolling out a water gun emoji as a replacement for the handgun.

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There will be a number of new and updated emojis in Apple's iOS 10, including a replacement for the controversial pistol emoji.

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.

You know, the most important liquid in the universe aside from water? Aside from that one super boring coffee cup emoji, you have to do it with actual words. Until now!

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.