What is the latest on belt-feds such as a 1919, M2HB, or DShK?

IIRC, in California (not Hawaii), belted ammunition is considered a "high capacity magazine" and is banned under those provisions.  

The belt is an "ammunition feeding device" in the same way a box magazine is an ammunition feeding device.

A cloth belt could be physically cut or have a stop installed* such that capacity is limited to only 10 rounds.  Linked ammo could be (and must be) limited to 10 rounds.  In this way, they could be used in a semi-auto version of those firearms (like a 1919).

I could be wrong but I believe this is the current interpretation.  If I am incorrect, please feel free to correct my mistakes.



*  ETA - added option to limit to 10 rounds without permanent mod to cloth belt.

Pretty sure that's correct but I haven't been closely following whatever is going on the magazine litigation(s?) and what it might do to definitions, etc.

I think you mis-typed this or perhaps I missed your intent.  I think it goes like this:

If the high cap ban is over-turned, they can remove the stops they installed and add as many links as they want..

If the legislation is upheld, the belts and links have to stay at 10 rounds.

Oh, I understand your point.  You are referring to the judge's stay of the new legislation banning high cap magazines and belt.

I was referring to the legislation, itself.  I think the stay will prove to be temporary, as I've heard the CA DOJ is going to fight it.

Have you heard anything about that?  I suppose the stay could be permanent, if it isn't fought in court by the DOJ.



They did this when they defined a magazine as broadly as an "ammunition feeding device".  Yes, they over-reach as far as they can, given their ultimate goal of disarming the law-abiding public.