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For a good many people racking the slide on some guns can be troublesome. This can be due to hand strength, injury or disease. I have known, and know several men and women whose hands are not strong enough to retract the slide on a number of guns reliably.
Salty is right that some types of guns can be easier to rack the slide on. Striker fired guns don't have the resistance of a mainspring to overcome. A full size Government Model is easier to rack than a subcompact 1911. etc.
Technique can help. The older method of racking the slide involved holding the frame steady with the strong hand while the weak hand retracts the slide. This requires enough hand and finger strength to do so reliably. Some folks do not have that.
The newer, and I think better and more reliable, method of racking the slide involves holding the slide steady with the weak hand and pushing the frame forward to retract the slide all while the gun is held close to the body. It requires less finger strength than the older method. It should be practiced with dummy rounds to make sure the weak hand does not inhibit the election of spent cases or rounds.
If the gun has a hammer cocking the hammer before racking the slide also helps as others have said.
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