User blog comment:Exvnir/Stray bullets/@comment-10390252-20130909142154/@comment-7622429-20130909151421

Well,you can see with Crescent Rose,Ember Cecilia,and Gambol Shroud that they do happen to use bullet-like cartridges as ammunition. The application of different Dust-types to replace normal gun-powder is probably the only real difference between the bullets of the RWBY universe and ours. However,there's the case of ammunition differentiation between different weapon types,with the grunts of Roman using standard firearms that use standard bullets,and the more unique weapons of the Beacon students using a more specialized ammunition variant. Either way,these students are very adept at dodging and predicting bullet trajectories. Plus,Aura probably plays a part as well in the stopping of lethal amounts of damage to a person.