Emoji with Gun 🔫

The emoji with gun (🔫) — Unicode Water Pistol — is the only gun-shaped character in the emoji set. On every major platform today it renders as a toy squirt gun: bright plastic, water tank, clearly not a real firearm.

People search gun emoji, pistol emoji, handgun emoji, and emoji with gun — all mean 🔫. Common uses: playful threats among friends, gaming banter, pew-pew memes with 💀, and literal summer water fights.

Unicode originally encoded 🔫 as PISTOL (2010). In Unicode 9.0 (2016) the official name changed to WATER PISTOL. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and X/Twitter followed with redesigned artwork — squirt guns replaced realistic revolvers between 2016 and 2018.

If you remember a realistic gun emoji, that was the old design. Copying 🔫 today always sends the water-pistol character; appearance is toy gun everywhere.

🔫 supplies the gun shape for memes. 💀 Skull delivers the punchline — I'm dead, got shot figuratively, dying from the joke.

The 🔫💀 stack is one of the most common Gen Z meme combos for cartoon shootout humor.

🤠 Cowboy Hat Face brings western gunfighter aesthetic — yeehaw, country humor, ironic confidence. 🔫 is the actual pistol-shaped emoji.

Together 🤠🔫 reads western shootout meme — playful, not documentary violence.

FPS and battle royale communities use 🔫 for headshot jokes, got you messages, and respawn banter. Discord :gun: shortcode makes it easy to drop in server chat.

Server rules vary — some communities restrict 🔫 even as a joke. Check moderation guidelines before spamming it.

Among close friends, 🔫 often punctuates "don't make me," "you're done," or "I want that back" — clearly hyperbolic when paired with laughing emoji or absurd context.

Without that context, receivers may find it alarming. Add words or choose a softer emoji if intent could be misread.

TikTok: ironic comment memes, shootout trend replies, reaction to outrageous takes.

Instagram: less common in captions; appears in meme comments and summer pool posts literally.

X: quote-tweet reactions and pew-pew reply chains — almost always meme tone.

Use 🔫 for playful friend banter, gaming humor, pew-pew memes, western stacks with 🤠, and literal squirt-gun summer posts.

Stack with 💀, 😂, 🤡, or 😈 to signal irony — never rely on 🔫 alone if tone is ambiguous.

Do not use 🔫 for real threats, harassment, intimidation, or any message that could be reported as violence — platforms may suspend accounts.

Avoid in professional email, school chats, messages to strangers, and any context involving actual weapons, self-harm, or political violence. Use words instead.

Water Pistol is U+1F52B, Unicode 6.0 (2010), renamed in Unicode 9.0 (2016). Category: Activities. Shortcode :gun: on Discord; :water_pistol: on some platforms.

CLDR keywords still include gun, pistol, revolver, handgun — which is why searches for gun emoji resolve to 🔫 even though the glyph is a toy.