The water gun swap is not Apple's first foray into cartoon gun control. Earlier this year the governing body in charge of emojis nixed a proposed rifle emoji. It was one of a number of possible ...

Members of the Unicode Consortium, the group overseeing emoji standards across platforms, removed the rifle from the upcoming Unicode 9.0, which includes 72 soon-to-be-released characters, after ...

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 ...

The squirt gun emoji change comes alongside "more than 100" other changes to Apple's emoji, including more options for skin tones, more women in diverse professional roles, and more detailed ...

CUPERTINO (CBS SF) -- Apple has killed the gun emoji on its new iOS 10 update and replaced it with a toy. The latest operating system for iPhone and iPad users dropped Tuesday, with 70 new emoji ...

Both of these gun emojis can be seen in an archived version of Unicode's original list, as it appeared on May 14, but neither rifle nor pentathlon appeared in the Unicode 9.0 emoji chart on the ...

When Apple users update to iOS 10, the pistol emoji will be gone, and in its place they’ll find a lime green water gun. Where there once was a deadly firearm, there's now a cartoon of one of the ...

When it comes to the gun emoji, Apple was the first platform to swap it for the water pistol back in 2016. It also lobbied the Unicode Consortium to reject a rifle emoji.

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 ...

In a move spearheaded by Apple and supported by Microsoft, members of the Unicode Consortium decided to nix the rifle at the last minute. Rifle emoji dropped after pressure from Apple, Microsoft.

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.