Pál Király


Pál Király was a Hungarian engineer and weapons designer.

Work &; designs

He is best known for development of lever-delayed blowback firearms. 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. 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.

Personal life

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