Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14909251-20131124211317/@comment-92.4.160.65-20140524154033

Shadow at Morning wrote: That's regulated combat, completely sanctioned. Take a look at the background, it's the same place where Jaune and Cardin were sparring in Jaundice. Might be tournament related, might not.

That does bring up a question I've always had: How do they safe firearms for sparring and tournaments and such? They have to use the weapons themselves, not stand-ins. Anyone with military or police experience, feel free to chime in.

I'm also very glad that the opening, at least, firmly establishes CRDL as good guys. Assholes they may be, but they're far from evil. Well its implied that Weapons can focus aura as ammunition. That plus Yang and Ruby have both demonstrated interchangeable clips with different effects. My guess is that if the 'Aura bullets' can't be made non-lethal at will, then I'm sure everyone has their own sets of non-lethal rounds to go with their weapons.

Also, Aura can block and heal injuries right? Well I'd guess its safe to assume that an aura can block bullets anyway. Grimm don't have aura and thats why they're susceptible to decapitation ect. Fights are called when a persons aura is at a critical level, so theres no risk of their aura giving out before that and sustaining gunshot wounds.

In the opening we can see Pyrrah turn Milo into a rifle and shoot Dove in the chest, knocking him back. If Pyrrah isn't using rubber bullets or something then I'm guessing Dove's aura took the brunt of it and thus sent him flying instead of blowing a hole in his torso.