New York Times Book Review calls American Gun "a magisterial work"

Mike Spies, a senior staff writer at the Trace reviewed American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 for the NYTBR. He declared the book "a magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage."

He wrote: "With commanding authority, 'American Gun' lays out the unvarnished truth about an industry where the conversion of fear into profit, along with an ever-mounting civilian body count, causes few pangs of conscience. Policymakers and the public alike have much to learn from it."