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 science fiction movie. But in iOS 10, Apple was the ...

On platforms and devices, software and apps, the emoji keyboard is a gun-free zone. Well, almost. On Wednesday, Google rolled out an Android update for the emoji keyboard that replaces the gun ...

Ten emoji have been linked to violence, according to For Working Parents. Unsurprisingly, the water gun and knife refer to weapons, while the dynamite and pirate flag simply refer to crime in general.

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 ...