Pistol emoji

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The pistol emoji (U+1F52B 🔫 PISTOL) is an emoji defined by the Unicode Consortium as depicting a "handgun" or "revolver". It was historically displayed as a handgun on most computers (although Google once used a blunderbuss); as early as 2013, Microsoft chose to replace the glyph with a ray gun, and in 2016 Apple replaced their glyph with a water pistol. Since then, its rendering has been inconsistent across vendors. Microsoft changed its glyph back to an icon of a revolver during 2016 and 2017, before switching it to a (differently-styled) ray gun; in 2018, Google and Samsung changed their devices' rendering of the emoji to a water pistol, as well as the websites Facebook and Twitter. In 2024, Twitter (by then known as "X") chose to restore the glyph of a handgun, although instead of a revolver it used a semi-automatic M1911.

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