Just received a Tommy Gun Pack in the mail which I plan to use when bicycling once the weather gets warmer. Haven't found any other carry method that actually works for me. And, for $15 shipped, it fit my budget pretty well too ;-) Going to add a camera manufacturer or cell phone patch to the front and should be good to go. Looking at the pack itself, it doesn't look bad. I may add a little something to it to hold the gun in position within the gun section of the pack.
Actually carried a fanny pack in public...
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I was given a nice leather fanny pack some 10 years ago that fits my Sig P239 perfectly. I never wear it in public but often times have it open in front of the driver's seat when I'm on the road. When I flew from MI to CA in 2003 for my step-daughter's wedding I wore it just to carry my wallet, keys, cell, etc. with shorts, t-shirt & sandals (not for concealed carry). A clerk at a gas station said, "Dude, you know those went out the 80's right?" Only in CA is a fanny noticed, where it brakes ALL the fashion laws.
I have a question for fanny pack users....Can one retrieve his weapon in shooting position faster than one who is in Condition 3 in a traditional holster set-up? I realize in Cond. 1, no way; but what about the 3? I ask this since one of the arguments against a slide rack is the time involved while be "ambushed" by the BG.....
Until recently, I would have wholeheartedly DISagreed with the argument that fannypacks don't advertise guns. However, there is this little old guy who comes into the gym with his wife (or girlfriend?) pretty regularly, and they both have fannypacks that they carry around with them in the gym (on the treadmill, lifting weights, etc.). You would have to admit that fannypacks at the gym are out of the ordrinary, and I certainly had noticed them and their gear several times before. But, it was just the other night that, for the first time, I put two-and-two together that fannypack likely equals firearm. I'm sure it's only my recent thinking about concealment that cued my attention. Up until that point, my thinking never went beyond "a fannypack at the gym...well, that's odd".
On a semi-related matter, one of the "family friends" of my in-laws is a LE officer. He and his family attend family gatherings with some regularity. Even knowing the nature of his employment, I had never thought even once about whether he was carrying a gun or not. Surely, he is carrying a gun, but it had never crossed my mind until the most recent family event, and then only because I was thinking about concealment issues. And you would think that having two LE parents, as I do, would put things like that somewhere in the forward half of my brain, but apparently not.
So, I'm convinced now that the argument that "out-of-sight is out-of-mind" really holds true.
On a semi-related matter, one of the "family friends" of my in-laws is a LE officer. He and his family attend family gatherings with some regularity. Even knowing the nature of his employment, I had never thought even once about whether he was carrying a gun or not. Surely, he is carrying a gun, but it had never crossed my mind until the most recent family event, and then only because I was thinking about concealment issues. And you would think that having two LE parents, as I do, would put things like that somewhere in the forward half of my brain, but apparently not.
So, I'm convinced now that the argument that "out-of-sight is out-of-mind" really holds true.
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I've been using a Galco fanny pack for years for going to the gym (hard to carry a 6906 in sweat pants), while jogging, on vacation (when hiking with a backpack the fanny pack is out of the way but still accessible, gun behind hip is no bueno).
Never had anyone look at me twice.
Never had anyone look at me twice.
