The Ending Of Sons Of Anarchy Finally Explained

One of the biggest sources of income for the Sons is the partnership across the pond with the True IRA, buying and selling guns for "the cause" of the Irish group. But it's always been a shaky alliance that has frayed over time — and with betrayals, murders, and even the kidnapping of baby Abel Teller at the end of season 2. As Jax began reading through his father's journals over the course of the show, he slowly realized that gun-running and drug-dealing really wasn't what his father, John Teller (Victor Newmark), had intended for the club.

Those journals help Jax realize that his life has been hurtling down the wrong road for years. He decides once and for all to get out of business with the IRA, but obviously the only way to do so is with bullets and blood. The club lures one of the Irish Council, Brendan Roarke (Bob McCracken), to Charming under the pretense of supplying him with an IRA traitor to execute: Connor Malone (Scott Anderson).

But when Roarke and his associates arrive to take matters into their own hands, Jax swiftly executes the Irish King with a single gunshot to the head. It's a bold move that usually would come with some heavy blowback on Jax, but the young biker had already chosen how his story will end, so it doesn't matter to him. Jax even makes life easy for Malone, who continues the existing gun deal with Marcus Alvarez (Emilio Rivera) and the Mayans instead of the Sons of Anarchy. It took a lot of time to get the club out of guns, but at least Jax finally managed it.