Fanny Pack Holsters for Firearms

Fanny Pack Holsters

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Fanny pack holsters or belt packs are a specialized concealment option and generally worn by users in warmer climates to compensate for lack of clothing/pockets. A typical fanny pack holster is a small fabric pouch secured with a zipper and worn at the waist by a strap around the hips. Fanny packs are also available in leather.

Fanny packs can be slung either forward, to the side, or to the rear of the wearer. The name fanny pack comes from the fact that they were traditionally worn towards the rear above the buttocks. Once popular with hikers, bicyclists and of course tourists, the fanny pack today is considered unfashionable by most people.

Despite its unpopularity with the mainstream, the fanny pack is still a useful and popular way of carrying a concealed firearm for permit holders and off duty police. Many manufacturers make fanny packs that are designed for concealed gun carry including Desantis, Galco, Blackhawk, Bianchi, Safariland, Uncle Mikes and more. Usually fanny pack holsters have some sort of quick release to draw your firearm quickly when needed.

Despite the name, most who use fanny packs to carry a firearm wear them in the front because wearing them on the rear makes them harder to access when the weapon needs to be drawn. Also if wearing the fanny pack holster in the rear position you risk losing your firearm to a pick pocket.