I have always found the :pistol: -> water gun thing to be a great example of corporate NewSpeak in the service of some ideology.

If you mean a pistol, it should be a pistol.

If you mean a water gun, it should be a water gun.

Having both icons seems perfectly fine.

So I rather like this change: it reverts a Newspeakism back to normal meaning. Also, as another commentator points out, the relevant Unicode symbol definition image is an actual pistol.

anyway, a bit of a molehill to get riled up about. I have a mountain of code to climb. Ta!