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Musk changed the water pistol emoji to render a realistic handgun on his site last year, because of course he did (lemmynsfw.com)
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Sauce: https://emojipedia.org/twitter/twemoji-15.0.3/pistol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The symbols aren't uniform across all platforms Microsoft, Apple, and Samsung use slightly different emojis for the same Unicode symbols, and now Twitter is doing the same. If anything, they just changed fonts on the pistol emoji.