American Sniper Trailer Has Chris Kyle Fans Giddy

By Bob Owens | 5:56 PM | October 03, 2014

Chris Kyle was the larger-than-life Navy SEAL who was the deadliest sniper in American history. Ironically Kyle died not at war, but in the United States, selflessly attempting to help a fellow serviceman through his PTSD.

Bradly Cooper is portraying Kyle in American Sniper a movie directed by Clint Eastwood, who knows something about portraying hard men as both an actor and a director.

So far, the fan reaction to the movie’s first trailer is near giddy with anticipation, though some are worried that trying to tell Kyle’s story through a devoutly anti-American, anti-war Hollywood is going to end up smearing Kyle in some way.

Based on what this one little clip shows, do you think Eastwood will get Kyle’s story right?

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.