And companies like Apple added it to their platforms. Most of them created realistic designs for the emoji, modeled after real-life pistols. While Microsoft’s looked more like a ray gun from a ...

Apple apparently used its influence with Unicode to prevent two emoji with guns in them from appearing in the update, according to an earlier report in BuzzFeed. The Unicode 9.0 update ...

Credit: Mashable It's not clear exactly why Apple objected to the emoji but, as BuzzFeed points out, the characters had already faced criticism from gun control activists in the UK. Even though ...

Follow her on Instagram @piavela_ Amid growing concerns over gun control in response to recent mass shootings in the U.S., Apple has decided to replace the deadly pistol emoji for a much ...