There's an emoji for almost everything now - from robots to tacos and lollipops, but the one item that isn't making the cut: a rifle.

Apple has killed the gun emoji on its new iOS 10 update and replaced it with a toy.

Unicode 9.0, which will be out June 21, is one of the most highly anticipated releases in emoji history. Finally you will avail yourself of the need to type out the letters for avocado, bacon ...

Apple and Microsoft are being accused of getting political by pressuring Unicode into dropping two new gun emojis.

Apple has opted to switch out its gun emoji for something a little less risqué. The Cupertino, California giant announced plans to use a squirt gun instead of the gun emoji, the company announced ...

If you prefer emoji to actual words, you can now read classic works like “Moby Dick,” the Bible and Shakespeare’s plays – adaptations include “YOLO Juliet” &ndas… ...

Apple successfully pushed to have a rifle emoji removed from the standardized collection of icons, saying it would not support the image on iOS and would prefer it be removed from the list of 2016 ...

A proposed rifle emoji will not be included in the coming Unicode 9.0 update after tech companies, including Apple and Microsoft, objected.

In a move spearheaded by Apple and supported by Microsoft, members of the Unicode Consortium decided to nix the rifle at the last minute.

Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. Bullets are out, water ...

There's an emoji for almost everything now -- from robots to tacos to lollipops -- but the one emoji that recently got the cut: a rifle. Members of the Unicode Consortium, the group overseeing ...

Apple has opted to switch out its gun emoji for something a little less risqué. The Cupertino, California giant announced plans to use a squirt gun instead of the gun emoji, the company announced ...