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My CHL instructor was very wise when he said never carry indirectly and alwasy have the gun carried out of sight and choose a carry method that is out of sight as well.

If you carry in glove box and a car jacker comes up and sticks a gun in your face and kindly asks you to test drive you fine automobile, its highly unlikely he is then going to turn his attention for 5-10secs to allow you to get into you glove box. So carry the gun on you.

I asked him about fanny packs. He said he carried that way for a while til he realized the weakness of the carry strategy.

Carrying in a fanny pack leaves you open to two vulnerabilities:

1) Educated criminals that know you might be carrying in your fanny pack. They will still try to rob you as they still have the element of surprise, and your element that you might be carrying is now more obvious. They will make seperating you from your fanny pack and priority and they will relish in the idea of a free gun.

2) If you have an uneducated robber, still, do you think he is not going to want the fanny pack? If you are being robbed he will demand your belongings and I do not see how he would not want the fanny pack. Basically you leaving a slimmer chance to actually get to use and deploy your weapon in a robbery situation.

Carry concealed and keep you chosen method concealed. if you are seperated from you valuables like watch, wallet, and fanny pack, you have a window to regain control if you toss everything on the ground in a mock compliance and back up telling the guy you dont want trouble he can have it all. When he goes to pick it up you can then side step and quickly withdraw your HIDDEN weapon.

Having a gun in a fanny pack makes your gun unvisible, but its not hidden, the object that contains your gun is in clear view and in the immediate attention of potential criminals making it harder to access the weapon without being noticed.

Good luck with the fanny pack, but i dont think its a realistic way to carry if your serious about not being caught off guard.