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Sons of Anarchy MC

File:Soaintertitle.jpgSOA logo tattooed on Jax Teller's back.
Founded	1967
Founded by	John Teller and Piermont "Piney" Winston
Founding location	Charming, California, United States
Years active	1967-present
Territory	Chapters throughout North America and Europe
Ethnicity	White and Hispanic
Membership (est.)	400-500 world-wide
Criminal activities	Gun running, murder, extortion, protection racketeering and trafficking in stolen goods
Allies	One-Niners, True IRA and the Cacuzza crime family
Rivals	Mayans and Nordics

The Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club (SOAMC) is a "one-percenter" motorcycle gang from the FX television series Sons of Anarchy. The club was formed by John Teller and Piermont "Piney" Winston, two Vietnam War veterans, in 1967 in Charming, California. Six of the original nine members were war vetrans. Their logo is a grim reaper wielding an M-16 with scythe blade and holding a crystal ball. The club has 28 chapters world-wide. These are in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, New England, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and Wyoming in the United States. There are also a number of chapters in Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scandinavia.

The series follows the club's Mother Chapter, the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, or SAMCRO. The chapter's current President is Clay Morrow and his Vice-President is Jax Teller. Their primary business is importing illegal weapons and selling them to drug gangs in the East Bay, along with protection runs for local businesses by protecting valuable truck shipments from hijacking. They also protect Charming from outside gangs who try to manufacture and sell drugs, mainly methamphetamine, there. Naturally, their main enemy is the White supremacist Nordics gang who specialize in the meth trade. The fact that the Sons of Anarchy are racially diverse also puts them at odds. They also have to deal with a rival Oakland-based motorcycle club, the Mayans, who control the neighboring territory of Nevada. The Sons of Anarchy also have a number of allies, in the form of the True IRA, which supplies them with illegal Russian-made guns, and the One-Niners, an African American street gang to which SAMCRO sometimes sells weapons, and various affiliates in the state prison system.

History

Season One

Series 1, set circa 2008, begins with the Sons of Anarchy finding their warehouse, where they store weapons, being burned down in Charming, California. They suspect that the Mayans have destroyed it and stolen the weapons, and retaliate by stealing the guns back from an industrial storage warehouse in San Leandro. The attack does not go as smoothly as anticipated, however, as three Mayans and a member of the Nordics turn up while they are inside the building. They then have no choice but to kill them and escape. They also retrieve their weapons which were being stored there, and burn down the building. Meanwhile, the One-Niners are impatient that their shipment of guns has been delayed but grant the Sons of Anarchy a number of days to deliver them. Almost simultaniously, the Nordics begin selling methamphetamine in Charming, prompting a swift and violent response from the Sons of Anarchy.

Wayne Unser, the Chief of the Charming Police Department, has always got on well with the Sons of Anarchy during his time in charge, and even employed them as muscle at times. However, he is dieing from cancer and will retire at the end of the month, handing power over to his Deputy, David Hale, who is overtly suspicious of the SOA and will almost definately begin an investigation into the club. To warn Unser to keep Hail off their case, the SOA hijacked a shipment that they were supposed to protect, and threaten to hijack more. As a good will gesture, they gave the contents of the truck to the local Italian American Mafia as their guns were late to be delivered. To distract the police from their activities, the burnt down warehouse (where the police found two dead Mexican prostitutes and a number of discarded guns) in particular, the SOA aquire two dead bodies from the local morgue and set them up in a fake shoot-out. The set-up shooting is made to look like a racist murder involving the Nordics.

Local businessman Elliot Oswald goes to the Sons of Anarchy after his 13-year-old daughter was raped at a carnival and asks them to hunt the rapist down and kill him, in exchange for money. The SOA refuse the money but insist that if they catch him, he must carry out the punishment himself. They find out the rapist is one of the carniess, capture him and bring him to Oswald who tries to castrate him but can't bring himself to do it. Clay Morrow then carries the punishment out, but wears gloves whilst doing it. He then frames Oswald for the crime, as he was about to sell off much of the land around Charming to big business and housing, much to the disgust of the SOA whose reign over the town would be challenged.

External links

• Sons of Anarchy at FXNetworks.com
• Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club at IMDb
• Template:Tv.com
• Sutter Ink Blog - official blog of show runner Kurt Sutter
• Metacritic.com: Sons of Anarchy

References

1. Clubhouse 360 - Framed Vets Popup
2. Clubhouse 360: Plaques Overlay

• Sons of Anarchy
• Fictional gangs
• Fictional organized crime groups