TV Talk!

[Psychospacecow]

Well, (again, I don't watch the show) there are many pre-fab flintlock companies that make them ready for assembly. Its a hobby for people really, and as a gun guy, I can say for sure that it isn't uncommon, especially among the older crowd, to really be into said hobby. Where is this taking place anyway?

About 15+ years in the future where all electricity and electronic devices no longer are able to work. So computers, cars, trains, cell phones, flash lights, etc. Anything that needs power to work can't. And its a global thing. Show is set in USA in the East Coast and a bit of the Upper-Midwest (they went to Chicago, and eventually further West into Colorado).

So the tools to make guns that don't use electricity I'm sure still are around, but keep in mind this world now has gone back to the Wild West Days of working where people fight over even the smallest of resources and will kill to protect it. So scavenging is the norm for most people.

Here's the wiki page for a synopsis if you wish to see it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_series)

and the opening intro to the show when it started:
"We lived in an electric world. We relied on it for everything. And then the power went out. Everything stopped working. We weren't prepared. Fear and confusion led to panic. The lucky ones made it out of the cities. The government collapsed. Militias took over, controlling the food supply and stockpiling weapons. We still don't know why the power went out. But we're hopeful someone will come and light the way."

Going to Chicago in a crisis is literally the worst thing you could possibly do in the continental united states.

That being said, it couldn't be an EMP because anything grounded would still be fine. Honestly speaking, if everything went out, people'd just gather colonies around areas where people know the basics of power. If the current set stops working, nothing is stopping you from replacing it. With what I know about my area, we'd be set up with lights, fighting off aggressive drug addicts in withdrawal by the end of the month.
It just takes gas (very good here), or solar (bad here), or wind (good here), or geothermal (not happening), etc. Really, all you'd need is a river and a proper generator. Actually, considering you compared it to a wild west sort of thing, I find it almost appropriate because minus the cartels, we'd be pretty set around Texas.