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Published 10:55 20 Jun 2016 BST
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According to Buzzfeed, the ban was influenced by Apple, one of Unicode's largest companies, whose members have voting privileges.
Apple executives reportedly initiated the debate and said that the rifle emoji would not be supported on its platforms. Neither Apple nor Unicode has elaborated on the reasons why the emoji was taken off the list, but we can imagine it has something to do with recent events in the US.
That being said, the pistol/handgun emoji remains and nothing has been said on that matter by either organisation as of yet.
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