Most platforms and providers, including Twitter, swapped the realistic pistol emoji for a water gun or cartoonish space laser in the mid 2010s. The Unicode Consortium, which approves new emoji ...

Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol. The existence of any particular emoji is down to the Unicode ...

Retailer Walmart will pay a $16,000 fine for shipping realistic toy guns to New York buyers in violation of state law, state ...

The New York law bans retailers from selling or shipping toy guns of certain colors — black, dark blue, silver or aluminum — ...