Welcome to the Bersa Forum, just got here myself. I have a couple of Bersa Thunder Series pistols, a .380 & .45. Good dependable shooters and fairly easy to carry. I like a pistol with a exposed hammer and the Bersa does that with DA too unlike my old GI 1911 where you need to carry "condition 1" cocked and locked I can carry my Bersa's with a round in the pipe and hammer down for a DA first shot, I like that.