Well, she went back via FedEx today. We'll see what they say after they check it out.

I didn't want to try rubbing too hard on the scrapes, but they do look like bare metal and not marks from color transferred from something else. I wondered with all the shavings of metal on the front part of the hand guard metal plate that maybe some of that got on to a rag the gun was wiped with and they gripped the barrel and did a "twist" motion to wipe the barrel, giving it the horizontal marks. I don't know, we'll see what they say.