Bersa Thunder .380 problem

I suffered a breakage this evening at the range. The little gun just stopped working. We checked the firing pin, but it was just fine. The trigger, on the other hand, was sluggish and failed to return fully to it's starting position. The Bersa has a mag safety. However, even with the mag fully in the well the trigger does not engage the hammer and it just sits in full cocked position. FYI, the decocker/safety does work.

Now, I purchased this little gun used. After checking the Bersa website, since I'm not the original owner, the gun is not under warranty of any kind. Therefore, I would have to pay to have it shipped to Bersa, with insurance, pay to have them fix the problem, and most likely have to pay the shipping back to my ffl, again with insurance.

The only other way is simply to take it to my local gunsmith and have him fix it. The problem with this is that, although he does excellent work, he is a Sheriff's Deputy/SWAT so catching him at his shop can sometimes be impossible.

Now, I do like the pistol on two accounts: 1) it surprisingly is extremely accurate; 2) it is lighter to carry than my Makarov.

Questions: Is the Bersa Thunder .380 worth all the expense it could take to fix it? Or should I get something else?

This is the summed up explanation. Explaining the entire process and all that was tried would take up way more time than what is already posted.

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, the disconnect spring is nice and tight (if that's a good thing) and I can't see anything that looks out of place. I'm learning something that is not all that comforting. Bersa apparently does not work on their own guns. They contract out to certain gunsmiths. What good is the warranty then. I have my own gunsmiths that I trust implicitly with all my guns and the repairs would be completed with a far quicker turn around time and without all the shipping hassles.

D Rock's link hit the nail right on the head. Thanks to the picture on that link I was able to fix the problem myself. It truly was deceptively simple. However, now I must ask if anyone knows if Bersa has redesigned the disconnect spring? Seems to me to be something that wasn't very well thought out. I fully expect the same thing to happen again in another 300-400 rounds.

I finally called out to the Colorado shop and talked to them. I got the run down of all I needed to do in order to ship it to them. Well, as it turned out, I decided to run the Bersa buy a well-known gunsmith in town before I spent the time and money shipping it off.

I was told that the groove for the disconnector spring was deep enough and everything else looked great. (I thoroughly cleaned and oiled the Bersa). All that my gunsmith did was tweak the disconnector spring where it loops itself. After that, he gave it a thorough look-see, he gave my Bersa a good clean bill of health, so to speak.

Sometime in the coming week I'll be taking it back to the range for more testing. Honestly, now that I've had time to think about it, I think the entire problem was that it is still in it's break-in period. Another 100-200 rounds should be enough, I would think.

Apparently, taking the right grip off to clean and oil the back portion of the disconnector spring is going to be part of my cleaning and oiling regimen from now on. Weird, I've never had to do that with any other semi-auto I've ever owned.

GW, if I still have another problem with it during the testing phase, I'll send it on to Colorado as it is supposed to be used for CCW. For the time being, my Mak's got my back.