Waist straps aren't needed if you supply your own belt. The CountyComm EOD bag has MOLLE straps, and they work just fine on belts of all sized. It isn't knock off of the Proteus, by the way, it isn't even close, nor was it intended to be, in the same sense that the Civic is is not a knock off of the Focus (or the other way around).
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