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The safety on the Colt pocket model hammerless is quite positive; it blocks the sear using the same idea (though not quite the same way) as the 1911 pistol. It has two problems, the first being that it does not have a very positive detent, and the other that the safety is so small it is not as easy to take off in an emergency as it should be.
The "rimless smokeless" is marked on the guns even though the .32 is not truly rimless, being what we call semi-rimmed. The .380 ACP, like the .45 ACP, is truly rimless, apparently because John Browning became aware of the 9mm Luger cartridge which Luger brought to the U.S. for tests c. 1903.
Jim
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