[3][4][5][6] The film's story centers on a biker gang that tries to assassinate the district attorney and free one of their members who is on his trial for the murder.

Cunningham wants Joe to go undercover in Mississippi and infiltrate "The Brotherhood", a white supremacist biker gang linked to the murders of government officials and suspected of dealing drugs to the mafia.

Joe learns that the Brotherhood's goal is to eliminate Brent "The Whip" Whipperton, a district attorney running for Governor of Mississippi, who has promised to crack down on crime.

They plan to use stolen military weapons to storm the Supreme Court at the Mississippi State Capitol, where one of their own is on trial for murder, and assassinate Whipperton and the judges.

Inside the courtroom, Chains retrieves a hidden automatic rifle and uses it to kill a government agent, two security officers, all of the justices and Whipperton.

In a 2014 Q&A with an audience after a special 35mm screening of the film in Austin's Alamo Drafthouse, Brian Bosworth talked about how the original director (Bruce Malmuth) of the movie was fired due to some "personal issues that he couldn't control which poured out on set", and his firing caused all the original backstory (with the working title "Heart of Stone") for Bosworth's character to be removed and changed after Craig R. Baxley was hired to direct, which namely involved stunts, explosions and little else.

Henriksen later stated that he wrote his own dialogue due to the original script had his character speak only in quotes from the Bible.

The officials at the Arkansas State Capitol apparently did not know about the stunts that would be done during filming, which involved a motorcycle getting launched into a helicopter.