The next emoji update won't include a rifle because of Apple, report says

The next emoji update will be two characters short of what was originally planned — the result of a "late stage" change, according to the organization overseeing the symbols. Now, a new report suggests the change may have come from an unlikely source: Apple. 

The tech giant apparently used its influence with Unicode Consortium, the organization responsible for the development of new emoji, to prevent two new characters depicting rifles from being included in the upcoming Unicode 9.0 update, according to a report in BuzzFeed.