Originally Posted by
Lawrie Amatruda
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but the part that you describe as very stiff to slide sounds to me like you are talking about the cocking slide, just below the breech on the right of the pistol when pointed forward, the safety is the little button above the front of the trigger guard which moves right to left for fire and left to right for safe, I always advise users to be careful if using the safety button, because if you should put too much pressure on the trigger when it is safe you could break the trigger, it is very fragile.
Cheers Lawrie.