An X employee tweeted about the change last week, noting that the gun emoji has returned to 'its rightful form' on the X website. It will happen on mobile 'soon,' says Elon Musk.

On July 18, X employee @yacineMTB announced that they had made the change back to the gun emoji on the X website. "Fixed on web, soon to be fixed in rendering on mobile!" Elon Musk said in a reply ...

X changed its water pistol emoji to a normal firearm, six years after Twitter decided to follow the lead of other companies and get rid of its gun emoji. X does a mild controversy once again.

A software engineer at X, owned by Elon Musk, announced that the playful picture would be replaced by an emoji depiction of a Colt M1911. Musk followed up with a reply to say the change had been ...

Before removing cryptocurrency emojis from X, Musk added a dedicated emoji for the Trump-themed memecoin, MAGA (TRUMP), on July 18. The MAGA emoji has also been removed from X.

Originally, every firm showed the emoji as a firearm, except Microsoft, which designed it as a Buck Rogers-style ray gun. In 2016, however, Apple changed it from a firearm to a water pistol.

By 2018, Google, Meta, and X had followed suit.The Unicode Consortium later renamed the emoji to "water pistol," The Verge notes.. X didn't elaborate on why it decided to restore the emoji, though ...