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If the book title “American Gun” feels familiar, you’re not witnessing a glitch in the Matrix. Nine years ago, Chris Kyle’s book American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms was published a year after its author, the (as The Trace puts it) “most prolific sniper in American military history,” was fatally shot at a gun range by Eddie Ray Routh.
Sure, it’s been nearly a decade, but it still seems strange that Macmillan would go with an extremely similar title, American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 for an upcoming book from Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson. Comparisons to or market confusion with the earlier book, by the author of best-selling memoir American Sniper, seem inevitable. Why saddle this book with a name that will — for a certain segment of the population, hi! — immediately summon visual images of a bulky and buff Bradley Cooper (who played Kyle in the dramatic adaptation of AS)1? It’s weird, right?