Maggart remembered being paid a terse, unscheduled visit by Chris Cox, the executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action — the very man who last month vaguely and threateningly vowed that any lawmakers pushing for new gun control measures following the massacre at an Orlando nightclub would "pay a price for it" — during which he, "belligerently" said: "This is what we want, and we're going to get it."