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That's probably also why we don't have a real gun emoji (or it's rendered as a water pistol in many places). Although guns aren't the nicest invention, they are
by laurensr 4y ago
That's probably also why we don't have a real gun emoji (or it's rendered as a water pistol in many places).
Although guns aren't the nicest invention, they are real and sometimes need to be represented graphically.
- schroeding 4y agoThis was so important for (american) vendors and the (more or less american) committee that they even retroactively changed the standard from "pistol" to "water pistol", in the light of (american) gun violence.
- xenomachina 4y agoThe pistol emoji originally looked like a real gun. I think only Windows had a fake looking gun (more of a ray gun than a water pistol) initially. https://web.archive.org/web/20150625033351/https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150625033351/https://unicode.o... The change to a water pistol started with Apple in 2016, and then other companies followed: https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/