🔫 Pistol
Also known as: Gun, Revolver, Squirt Gun, Water Gun, Water Pistol
Description
A squirt gun (water pistol), as used to spray water for fun. On major platforms, depicted as a green or orange toy gun with an orange tip and barrel pointed left. Google and Facebook’s designs include mounted reservoirs. Originally depicted as a classic handgun, as a revolver or other pistol. In 2016, Apple switched its design from weapon to toy; other major vendors followed suit by 2018. Deprecated emoji sets or smaller platforms still display the emoji as a handgun. In July 2024, X / Twitter updated this emoji's design to once again show a real firearm. In August 2024 the firearm's design was changed, and also made available for iOS platforms. Microsoft initially displayed the emoji as a toy ray gun before switching to a revolver, then squirt gun. Google once featured a blunderbuss.
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| Platform | Shortcode | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Emojipedia | :pistol: | |
| GitHub | :gun: | |
| Slack | :gun: | |
| Discord | :gun: |
Additional Information
A gun emoji, more precisely a pistol. A weapon that has potential to cause great harm. Displayed facing right-to-left on all platforms. iOS http://emojipedia.org/pistol/
- Likely to use physical force.
- (of an emotion or natural force) very strong or powerful; acting with or marked by great force or energy or emotional intensity.
- Acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity
- Fatal, causing death.
- Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
- Subject to death; mortal.
- Causing death or having the ability to cause death.
- Deadly; mortal; fatal.
- Causing or capable of causing death
- To shoot (at) a target with a pistol.
- Shoot with a gun
- To shoot someone or something, usually with a firearm.
- Shoot someone or something.
- Hit with a missile from a weapon
- To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
- An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)
- The World Health Organization defines violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation," but acknowledges that the inclusion of "the use of power" in its definition expands on the conventional meaning of the word.
- The use of physical force to cause injury, damage or death
- A content descriptor developed by the Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (CERO).
- Intentional use of physical force or power often resulting in injury or death
- A content descriptor developed by the Pan European Gaming Information (PEGI) and the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).
- Violence is any act of aggression and/or abuse that causes or intends to cause injury to persons, animals, or property.
- A pistol with a revolving cylinder (usually having six chambers for bullets)
- Revolver with a cylinder that holds six bullets. A six-gun.
- A handgun with a revolving chamber enabling several shots to be fired without reloading.
- Handgun that has a cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel
- A handgun with revolving chambers.