Apple To Replace Pistol Emoji With Green Water Gun Emoji

Apple’s gun emoji has been used in not the most positive light since hitting the emoji keyboard. The revolver has caused a lot of issues, including gun violence, of course.

Back in March of this year, a Frenchman was jailed for three months after sending his ex-girlfriend a gun emoji. The court considered it to be a “real threat.” While this is only one of many cases that the gun emoji has been a part of, the company has decided to replace it completely with a new water gun emoji.

The revolver that sits in the library of emojis of your keyboard will now be replaced with a toy-like green water gun. The change will take effect in September, as Apple pushes out over one hundred new emojis. Apple doesn’t speak directly about the replacement, but they do speak about the overall change of emojis.

“This exciting update brings more gender options to existing characters, including new female athletes and professionals, adds beautiful redesigns of popular emoji, a new rainbow flag and more family options,” Apple said in a statement. “Apple is working closely with the Unicode Consortium to ensure that popular emoji characters reflect the diversity of people everywhere.”

The new emojis will be coming to iPhone users this fall [September] and will be apart of the new iOS 10 update.