Cristóbal Carbine

Both weapons were designed by Hungarian engineer Pál Király, who came to the Dominican Republic as an expatriate in 1948.The gun's name is a reference to the San Cristóbal Province, which is the birthplace of the late Dominican dictator, Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo.The Dominican Republic's military was the main user of this weapon although it was also exported to Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution.The Cristóbal had a wooden stock, 30-round bottom-mounted box magazine, and tubular receiver with a fixed cocking handle on the right-hand side.After Trujillo’s assassination on May 31, 1961, the Dominican government decided not to maintain a local military industry and production was slowly wound down.
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