If you were rich and have $2 million in gold that probably means you had $3 to $4 million in gold not too long ago, haha. Keep flushing that money down the toilet.
As for Chris Kyle, he seems to have been a genuine war hero. He was also a fairly big liar, so it's hard to know exactly what's true.
Yeah, the irony of his claims is that, if everything he wrote about were true, he would have been imprisoned for murder.

