Mattnew,
Look at the June ama today if it is still around. The airplanes in the junk pile are not fomies. They are glow powered airplanes that have been pretty well destroyed with radios hanging by a thread. The damage could not have been done by a low powered pistol. All of the respondents to this thread that have run such and event did not describe anything like the damage show in those pictures. They described a fun low key event that offered little danger. The pictures show what appears to be a medium sized glow model that was likely disabled in flight.
The hobby does not need that kind of attention with all of the pressure that it is under now.
Jerry