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Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green-and-orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Emoji are universal insofar as they share common designations across platforms (U+1F52B is the water pistol), which are decided by the Unicode Consortium. But it\u2019s up to each platform owner to decide how they\u2019re visually represented. That\u2019s how we got the Great Cheeseburger Emoji Debacle that was resolved in November 2017<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n You\u2019ll only see the gun if you\u2019re looking at X on the web \u2014 as of this writing, it doesn\u2019t appear to have updated in mobile versions of the app, though that\u2019s apparently on its way at some point<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n