> Apple hasn’t said why it would be making this change, but this summer, along with Microsoft, the company lobbied Unicode, the nonprofit consortium that decide

> Apple hasn’t said why it would be making this change, but this summer, along with Microsoft, the company lobbied Unicode, the nonprofit consortium that decides which emojis should exist, against adding a separate rifle. The rifle emoji Apple and Microsoft opposed was a sporting rifle (used in biathalon) that was proposed along with other winter sports. It had absolutely nothing to do with "gun violence" except for the vocal protestations of a tiny minority. I look forward to Apple removing the football emoji soon since pro football has a problem with chronic traumatic encephalopathy and tinkering with emoji will clearly help with solving the problem.