I used to wear a fanny pack all the time, as in 365 days a year, but not to conceal a gun. I had a lot of stuff to carry and I don't like having my pockets bulging out at the seems. As for it screaming gun as some like to claim - I walked right past two secret service agents, being totally unknown to them at that point, and into a small room with the then 'first daughter' Chelsea Clinton at Stanford in Palo Alto back in '99. They did not know me or why I was there nor did I know who these guys were outside this room I needed to check in to see if someone I was looking for was in there. It was not even the right room. Was not until I spotted her and her entourage that I put together who the two geeks outside the door who stared me down on the way in were. I had no ID badge or anything like that. I was not a student there either. I was somewhat out of place. So I guess my huge bulging fanny pack full of essentials, even with the severely annoyed look on my face as I tried to track someone down, did not set off any bells with them. Sure, I might have had a gun in there but I also might have, and in fact did have, a cell phone, smokes, keys, wallet, 2-way radio etc...
I love the stories that always come up about how, "I was carrying in a fannypack and a cop came up to me and demanded to see my carry permit." Give me a break. First off, I still often carry a fanny pack even if I don't 'carry' my gun in it and have never even had any such incidence and I had the misfortune of living in California for several years as a teenager and early twenties where you get harassed all the time by the cops just for walking down the street. In other words, the cops are not shy about harassing folks and I never had a cop take any interest in my fanny pack there or anywhere else. Even having a carry permit now and if I had a gun in a fanny pack and a cop came up to me demanding my permit because of a fanny pack I would tell him to stop harassing me and to leave me alone. I will happily be the test case to see if simply having a fanny pack qualifies as reasonable suspicion to search without consent. If so, I guess the cops can search any woman's purse as well because she could just maybe possibly have a gun in there. Why not search the trunk of anyone's car at anytime as well - never know, they might have guns or even drugs in there. A fanny pack is not reasonable suspicion for a cop, and frankly not for a civilian either, to suspect someone is carrying a gun. If you really think it is please see a psychiatrist ASAP.
I hope it does scream gun to a lot of the paranoid and half-crazy folks so maybe they will leave me alone when all I have in there is my wallet and cell phone and keys. But honestly I think the only folks to whom it screams gun are gun folks who first ever even saw a fanny pack in the form of a concealment getup. I can maybe see that but in reality fannypacks actually are VERY common and popular in many parts of the country and probably about 99% of the people wearing them in those places are not packing a gun. You can see me wearing one every now and again but the gun is on my hip, not in the fanny pack. It just floors me these folks who seem to think "everyone with a fanny pack is carrying a gun." That is as irrational as to think, "every woman with a purse has a gun in it."
Next some of you folks will conclude that anyone who has a greenhouse in their back yard is growing marijuana in it, matter of fact, simple as that. Well maybe, but certainly not a 'given' by any stretch of the imagination.