Current Updates

UPDATED: December 6, 2025

GENERAL ORDER FULFILLMENT

Books: See below for notices specific to each title.

Posters: Pistols of the Warlords is the only currently available poster.

GENERAL SHIPPING NOTICES

SUMMARY: SHIPPING TIMES HAVE SLOWED VIA USPS AND TRACKING SCANS ARE OFTEN BEING SKIPPED

The vast majority of our Economy Shipping orders ship via USPS Media Mail. We also ship some Express Shipping packages through UPS Ground and USPS Priority Mail (such as to PO Boxes). We are seeing delivery times for both options lengthen, somewhat randomly. We are also seeing numerous packages not being regularly scanned by USPS, until they are eventually delivered. Please expect additional wait times for shipping.

SPECIFIC BOOK NOTICES

  • Small Arms of the Cold War: Battle Rifles of NATO

    • Book is in the final phases of pre-production before sending to printer.

    • Books are at the printer. We expect them to arrive at our warehouse around November 2025. This is just an estimate, and we will update it with a better ETA as soon as we have it.

    • Books have shipped from the printer and are en route to our fulfillment center. Current ETA is December 2, 2025, at which point we will work to get all orders shipped as quickly as possible.

    • Current ETA at our fulfillment center is December 16, 2025.

  • Licensed Troubleshooter

    • Book has been sent to the printer.

    • We have been working with our printer to get a new ETA, and I think we have good info for you all now. The books should be completed and shipped by August 1, and here in the US by October 1. Unfortunately, we have had several delays on production of the book. 

      We were a bit later than normal in getting the final manuscript to the printer, as some of the stretch goals we hit in the Kickstarter required more time than we expected to complete writing and photography for. 

      In an effort to move away from Chinese printing, we chose a South Korean printer for Licensed Troubleshooter. It is a company we have worked with before (they did Tobacco of the Emperor), but they are slower than our Chinese printers and they are also not used to books as complex as Licensed Troubleshooter. It is moving along and the quality meets our requirements, but it has taken significantly longer than we expected (we hoped the experience from Tobacco would help them move faster on this book).

    • We have received advance copies of all book versions + the Collector’s Edition clamshell cases. See Ian McCollum’s review and flip through the books here: https://youtu.be/yUtYyVkoGH0?si=5Q8UvHxAPb1Sx_0y

    • Current expected ETA at our warehouse is January 2026.

  • OSS and CIA Weapons and Equipment

    • Books have completed production and have left the printer.

    • ETA at our warehouse is December 8, 2025.

    • However, these books will not ship to customers until their companion book, Licensed Troubleshooter, has also arrived at our fulfillment center. That date is expected to be in January 2026.

  • Forged in Snow

    • This is a Pre-Order item. Printed books are not expected to arrive at our fulfillment center until approximately August 2026; however, this date is only an estimate and is likely to change to some extent.

  • Vickers Guide: Heckler & Koch (Volume 4):

    • Books have completed printing and shipped from our printer. Books are expected to arrive at our fulfillment center on September 22, 2025.

    • SIGNED, SLIPCASE, and SIGNED SLIPCASE versions of the book arrived at our fulfillment center on September 18, 2025 and begin shipping immediately. Please allow us approximately two weeks to clear the backlog of pre-orders.

    • STANDARD edition books were shipped in a separate container and are now expected at our fulfillment center in October 2025. We will post a more precise ETA as soon as it becomes available.

    • Books are now shipping.

  • Vickers Guide: Kalashnikov (Volume 2)

    • Books have completed printing and shipped from our printer. Books are expected to arrive at our fulfillment center on September 22, 2025.

    • This book arrived at our fulfillment center on September 18, 2025 and begins shipping immediately. Please allow us approximately two weeks to clear the backlog of pre-orders.

    • Books are now shipping.

  • Vickers Guide: AR-15 (Volume 1), Third Edition

    • Books have completed printing and shipped from our printer. Books are expected to arrive at our fulfillment center on September 22, 2025.

    • This book arrived at our fulfillment center on September 18, 2025 and begins shipping immediately. Please allow us approximately two weeks to clear the backlog of pre-orders.

    • Books are now shipping.

 
 

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