That's ashame. You have a defect no doubt as the safty is not suppose to touch the barrel. I have an older model TK2000 camo and I don't have any paint coming off anywhere. I will post photos tonight of mine to show you what it should look like and the clearance you should have had on the safty. I don't remember mine having the plastic trigger guard which may be an update on the newer models. I'll check.