The 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.

The 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/