sorry for the slow reply... no he was not asked to leave... this was just a monthly local club event... back in the beginning of the sport... the fear of lawyers had not ruined the sport yet... custom grips and a trigger job was "high tech"... the gun was cleared and made safe... when he threw the thing in a safe direction it was just a chunk of metal... no different than a dirt clod... which I was throwing because I was 12 and bored since they would not let me shoot yet... the range was set in an old quarry... sorry if there was a false sense of terror about what happened... it was just a bad day with a faulty gun...