Pál Király

Pál Király (1880–1965) was a Hungarian engineer and weapons designer.

For the Hungarian long-distance runner, see Pál Király (athlete).
Pál Király
Born1880
Budapest
Died1965
Dominican Republic
NationalityHungarian
Occupation(s)Engineer and weapons designer

Work & designs

He is best known for development of lever-delayed blowback firearms, and being employed by the Danuvia company in the 1930s and 1940s to design and produce weapons for the Royal Hungarian Army. He designed the Danuvia 39M and improved it into the Danuvia 43M submachine gun. After he moved to the Dominican republic, he designed the .30 Kiraly-Cristobal carbine, which was essentially a copy of his earlier work, specifically the 44M (an improved 43M). He made two more Cristobal carbine versions, the delayed blowback M2 in .30 Carbine and the gas-operated M3 in 7.62×51mm NATO. He patented the latter in 1961 as a competitor to the Belgian FN FAL.[1]

Personal life

He moved to the Dominican Republic as an expatriate in 1948.

References
  1. Sunblest.net, Kiraly-Cristobal Submachine Guns & Machine Pistols
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