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68Charger wrote:Eh.. sure. I live here in San Antonio, too. When I go downtown I see them a lot and don't think at all that there is a gun in there.

Fanny packs though.. They're just so darn ugly.

And they say men in the 60's had great fashion sense. SHAME ON YOU ALL!

;)

Actually, when I wear mine, you have only a little more chance of seeing it than you do of seeing my IWB. I've figured out that I need to wear my gun belt on my pants and that I need to size the fanny pack so that it fits above the gun belt. I'm never been a "tuck" guy and all of my concealment shirts easily cover the fanny pack. It would only be when I reach into a pants pocket and the shirt tail comes up that any of it becomes visible.

You can ask my wife: She would be the first to tell you that I have no fashion sense. That's because I just don't care. As long as I'm clean and neat, that is good enough for me. Besides, I can think of many other types of garments that I consider uglier than a fanny pack but I'm not going to list them all here. I guess it comes down to personal tastes.. or lack of them in my case.

CJATE wrote:You guys are fooling your self if you don’t think a healthy percentage of the population does not assume you are carrying.

It may not matter and you may not "get made", but people assume.

Perhaps. It could also be that a healthy percentage of the population is in condition white and wouldn't believe that a fanny pack could carry a gun, too. The KaBar fanny pack that I have has a small square on it (the gun barrel goes off to one side of that square). Visually, it would appear that only a tiny gun like a derringer would fit into that size of a square. If anyone wants to think about that or even imagine it, that's fine. I'd bet that if you did a "man on the street" type interview after walking past them with the fanny pack on, no one would meant that they saw it or that it could contain a gun.

Only people who think about guns are going be looking. That is probably limited to people who actually carry (including non-CHLs) and antis. I'm not sure that all of the antis would know a gun fanny pack when they see it.

68Charger wrote:Wow..

I suppose you have to be a certain age to think that this is 'ok'. I just don't ever see me doing this. Ever.

Whatever cooks your turkey I guess..

~Alex

Yep...a few gray hairs and suddenly you care a lot less what people think you look like.

Like others, what cooks my turkey is convenience. Driving all day with a IWB at 4:30 is not comfortable at all and the fanny pack slips on real easy to step out of the vehicle on those long trips. On the other side of the coin, the fanny pack would be miserable to try to sit down it so using it is reserved for those times when I'm walking or standing.

We had a situation on our last trip that made me very, very happy to have slipped on the fanny pack before I go out. When the incident started, it looked like it might just be a pan handler but my 6th sense told me not to count on that. The fanny pack gave me the option to be ready if I needed to be