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

Work & designs

He is best known for development of

lever-delayed blowback Blowback is a system of operation for self-loading firearms that obtains energy from the motion of the cartridge case as it is pushed to the rear by expanding gas created by the ignition of the propellant charge. Several blowback systems exist ...

firearms, and being employed by the

Danuvia Danuvia, known fully as Danuvia Engineering Industries Rt. ( Hungarian: ''Danuvia Gépgyár'', lit. ''Danuvia Machinery Factory''), was a Hungarian manufacturer founded in 1920 that produced firearms, munitions, machine tools and motorcycles fo ...

company in the 1930s and 1940s to design and produce weapons for the

Royal Hungarian Army The Royal Hungarian Army ( hu, Magyar Királyi Honvédség, german: Königlich Ungarische Armee) was the name given to the land forces of the Kingdom of Hungary in the period from 1922 to 1945. Its name was inherited from the Royal Hungarian Hon ...

. He designed the Danuvia 39M and improved it into the

Danuvia 43M submachine gun The Danuvia 39M/43M was a Hungarian submachine gun designed by Pál Király in the late 1930s. History The 9×25mm Danuvia submachine gun was designed by Hungarian engineer Pál Király in the late 1930s, and was produced by the titular D ...

. 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 The .30 Carbine (7.62×33mm) is a rimless carbine/rifle cartridge used in the M1 carbine introduced in the 1940s. It is a light rifle round designed to be fired from the M1 carbine's 18-inch (458 mm) barrel. History Shortly before World W ...

and the gas-operated M3 in 7.62×51mm NATO. He patented the latter in 1961 as a competitor to the Belgian FN FAL.Sunblest.net
Kiraly-Cristobal Submachine Guns & Machine Pistols
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Personal life

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

References

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' {{DEFAULTSORT:Kiraly, Pal 1880 births 1965 deaths Austro-Hungarian military personnel of World War I Firearm designers Engineers from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian inventors Weapon designers from Hungary