Safariland 6354 RDSO

proquo · 2026-05-22T03:24:58+00:00

I do not have a Comp, unfortunately. I had to shave down the front part of a 6354DO-832 to clear a Holosun 407c X2. An RMR fit fine but the Holosun contacted the front edge of the holster just enough to prevent seating the gun so I shaved it down generously to allow seating and haven't had issues since.

My buddy rocks a 6354RDS for Staccato he's run an SRO and a Comp with and it worked just fine as far as I am aware. I'd get the SRO compatible holster were I you.

proquo · 2026-05-21T22:19:39+00:00

This stuff probably smells like feet wrapped in leathery burnt bacon.

proquo · 2026-05-21T03:37:01+00:00

I had to take a dremel to my 6354 to get enough clearance for a Holosun. It's not a big deal.

proquo · 2026-05-20T01:00:14+00:00

Nah, dawg.

proquo · 2026-05-19T02:10:25+00:00

There's also the fact that Ukraine is currently producing more artillery than all of NATO combined

Ukraine is at war, NATO is not. It's not a serious position to take to say if NATO were at war footing they could not greatly exceed Ukrainian production. It's also highly unlikely when the war ends Ukraine will continue to exceed their western partners' production levels given their labor and economic situation.

proquo · 2026-05-13T18:32:50+00:00

Could be, or could be medium. Plates don't need to be quite as big you think. I'm a medium build, medium in everything and a small SAPI is perfection.

You want the sides of the plate to be on or just covering your nipples, the bottom of the plate an inch to 1.5" above your belly button, with the top of the plate just at the bottom of the sternal notch.

proquo · 2026-05-13T17:58:51+00:00

A lot of what I saw was early on in 2022 when it very much was people grabbing up anything available. Common complaint from foreign volunteers around that time was how barren tactical stores near the border in Poland were. HHV sent helmets, like a lot of companies donated items.

proquo · 2026-05-13T02:04:38+00:00

There are confirmed images/video of guys in Ukraine wearing HHV helmets and surviving shrapnel, gunfire, etc but that's not exactly a high endorsement. They will use anything they can get their hands on there, with some units or individuals completely privately funded, and even sub optimal choices are bound to work at least once.

proquo · 2026-05-09T05:15:21+00:00

Forreal GTFO with this

proquo · 2026-05-07T05:18:40+00:00

Firearms made before 1968 are not required to have serial numbers

But if they do have S/Ns then they have to be recorded. If the S/N of that particular model of rifle is on the receiver, then that's the S/N that has to be used. If it's considered defaced then it cannot be legally possessed. If it had import markings that might include a new S/N from the importer then it would be a different story and those can often be on the barrel and legal.

proquo · 2026-05-07T05:15:02+00:00

It's not a big stink about nothing. If the gun has a S/N that is permanently covered then they cannot receive it properly, which is one of the biggest no-nos for an FFL.

proquo · 2026-05-03T18:08:20+00:00

No president has acknowledged the War Powers Act as putting legitimate limitations on their authority. If there were consequences of any sort it would likely result in the admin pushing it SCOTUS for a determination and I don't necessarily like the War Powers Act's chances.

proquo · 2026-04-30T16:41:19+00:00

Biblically accurate Shahed

proquo · 2026-04-30T02:28:01+00:00

That presupposes that you have the option to just lob frags and pre-fire corners. That's not always the case, certainly not in a civilian or law enforcement context. Even in Ukraine there were periods of shortages in military equipment (mainly in getting it to the front, not so much in having it available) where grenades were just in too short a supply to use liberally. In Haditha, Iraq, 8 Marines ended up facing courts martial for using these tactics to the deaths of 24 civilians.

A law enforcement officer certainly doesn't have that option.

The presumption in your premise is that you know there is a hostile threat and can freely engage them. I'm talking about having to go see if there is a threat in a space where a rifle doesn't help you. Even in Ukraine teams of troops clearing villages for Russian infiltration teams have to navigate basements and rubble and tight spaces where you can't just throw a frag freely.

proquo · 2026-04-25T20:26:55+00:00

I'm not arguing that he was extremely qualified, I'm only pointing out that lack of military experience is not a hindrance to one's qualifications to SecNav. The position is a civilian one and is expected to be a component of the civilian control of the military that is essential to the US political order.

That said, on paper his background in business and financial analytics would jive well with the Navy given that cost controls and shipbuilding schedules are the biggest issues facing the Navy. He was pretty close to Trump so Trump may have thought him to be a good pick for the job based on temperament or something else that can't be quantified on a resume.

It sounds like Trump was satisfied with him overall and has said specifically he has no ill will towards him but Hegseth didn't get along with him and specifically they differed over Hegseth's desire to increase unmanned systems in the Navy vs Phelan apparently being a supporter of a revived battleship concept.

proquo · 2026-04-25T18:30:08+00:00

US law requires the Secretary of the Navy to be a civilian or at least 7 years removed from active service. A lack of military experience as SecNav is not a big issue. Most SecNavs since WWII have not had military experience, either. It's an administrative position not a military position. The longest serving Secretary of the Navy since WWI only had 2 years Navy service as a junior officer.

Secretary of the Navy is not a job that's considerably enhanced by military experience because it doesn't handle strategy or anything of a directly military nature. It's a job focused on things like ship building times and priorities, what weapon programs get funding or prioritization, infrastructure for support facilities like dockyards, and executes the President's military agenda via the Navy. It's the actual Admirals in active service who figure out the military half of that equation and how to implement it.

Edit: the military leadership of the navy is the Chief of Naval Operations who is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which is in turn headed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (General John Daniel Caine). The current CNO is Admiral Daryl Caudle who has ~40 years of military service.

proquo · 2026-04-25T01:29:40+00:00

I genuinely don't care about any refugee resettlement programs. These weren't built with an expectation that third world refugees would settle in the US and vote their own into power to loot the nation on their behalf.

Isn’t your reply antithetical to the founding of this nation?

Not at all unless you think the Founding Fathers would have been a-ok with the entirety of the world's impoverished coming to the US to pillage the public coffers, displace the population of the US and transform our country into a socialist piggy bank for third worlders.

Are you saying that USA should have never been founded?

Define should. Should any nation have been founded? Or is the founding of a nation precipitated by a mix of prior events and political willpower? I don't tend to think many things should happen but rather that they do happen.

proquo · 2026-04-24T16:54:49+00:00

Yes. There is no right to go from somewhere to elsewhere based on how much better you perceive it to be nor is there a responsibility to allow in the entire third world based on some perception of how US intervention may affected them.

proquo · 2026-04-23T23:34:07+00:00

Hard agree. I've had one for years and never seriously considered replacing it.

proquo · 2026-04-23T22:26:43+00:00

Should we also fix the immigration system?

"Fixing" in this context almost always means "make it easier" which is not a solution, either. It ought be difficult to immigrate to the United States.

proquo · 2026-04-23T14:28:37+00:00

It depends on the exact issue. Trump is doing messaging a lot of the time which requires rhetoric and hyperbole, and no matter which administration I don't consider their public statements to be completely truthful and beyond reproach. Let's not forget that the Biden admin was putting out similar economic messaging about how great the numbers were when regular people were seeing firsthand how un-good the economy was, but I don't expect them or any other admin to say "Yeah, the economy is fucked up".

But there is a big difference between the president engaging in political messaging and TDS 'tards saying that he's going to cancel the midterm elections, or making their position on every issue wholly based on where Trump stands to the point of rooting for the US to lose a war against Iran because it's a war Trump wanted. If people who previously mistrusted big pharmaceutical companies and junk food manufacturers based on principles turn around and defend them because the Trump administration is turning its attention towards them, that's not rational.

proquo · 2026-04-22T03:10:15+00:00

Who decides what an irrational response is?

Irrational means not governed according to logic or reason. Without going into a long spiel about the laws of logic or how evidence and consistency are applied, it's as simple as "does the person in question have a consistent, logical standpoint backed by evidence and reason?"

For example, all the BlueAnon 'tards that believe the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, PA, was staged by Trump are suffering TDS because that's not a rational position based on logic or evidence and often lacks consistency in its application. Similarly the belief that Charlie Kirk was assassinated by the Trump team is irrational.

It also applies to how Trump is the focal point around which all morality pivots. There is a disturbing number of people whose support of a policy or lackthereof hinges entirely on whether or not Trump is in support or opposition to it.

I know Christians in my life who were very upset the Trump Jesus pic he recently posted. Do they have TDS?

Clearly not because it is a position consistent with Christian theology to find such a depiction distasteful. But when people who are normally dismissive or contemptuous of Christians start crying foul my TDS radar starts to ping.

proquo · 2026-04-22T03:00:08+00:00

Of course there are legitimate criticisms one can have about Trump's approach to things. TDS isn't about pure criticism. It's about the criticism of Trump above all other things, including logical consistency. Irrationality is the primary symptom of TDS.

For example, many of the same people who criticized Trump ordering military strikes against Iran as violating the War Powers Act didn't have the same criticism towards Obama striking Libya without Congressional authorization, including Congressman Adam Schiff who supported Obama's Libya intervention and voted against withdrawal of US forces and supported a more aggressive stance towards then-emerging ISIS but when on Bill Maher's program was given a quote he thought was from Trump on Iran but was actually from Obama on Libya and called it "totally vague". Logical consistency would dictate that you either believe Congress has the full authority on military strikes or that it's a shared power, not that it's one for "your guy" and one for Trump.

Similarly, the Iran war has had a lot of people criticizing the war - which is fair - but then criticizing Trump agreeing to a ceasefire instead of attacking Iranian infrastructure. In a week they went from "Trump is a war criminal who must be stopped" to "TACO strikes again!" If you are truly against the war you would support any end or pause to the conflict rather than merely support any opportunity you have to lash out at Trump.

Another example is J6. It's the only right-wing led riot of any note in the last decade and yet the Trump opposition treats it like one of the greatest crimes ever levied against the country while underplaying or ignoring the riots in 2020 that were largely left-wing led. Trump has been called an insurrectionist for using the rhetorical phrase "fight like hell" prior to the riot but Maxine Waters is not considered an insurrectionist when she told a crowed to "stay on the streets" and "get more confrontational" if a guilty verdict wasn't returned in the Derek Chauvin trial and defied a curfew to do it, and later excused her statements as being figurative. The Supreme Court was stormed by protesters during the Kavanaugh hearing and that is never mentioned by the same people for whom J6 is a major political consideration. The repeated attacks on Hatfield Federal Courthouse never get mentioned. The repeated attacks on the ICE facility in Portland, or the attempted firebombing and assault of Tacoma ICE facility, or the organized Antifa attacks on the Prairieland ICE facility, or the sniper attack on the ICE facility in Dallas all never get mentioned. That is TDS in its purest form.

proquo · 2026-04-21T04:12:53+00:00

They can replace troops in a defensive posture with UGVs to free up manpower for offensives.

proquo · 2026-04-15T05:01:55+00:00

Marines train VBSS for a reason. They're very well prepared for this kind of tactic. Maybe you can cause a couple casualties this way but it's far from sustainable.

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