Evidence shows that new federal gun control legislation has been enacted in the United States since September 2020, contradicting Sacks’s prediction of “no new gun control legislation for a generation.”

Key facts:

1. Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA)

   • Passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on June 25, 2022.
   • Widely described in major outlets and by the White House as the first significant federal gun safety/gun control law in nearly 30 years.
   • Provisions include, among others:
     • Enhanced background checks for gun buyers under 21.
     • Funding incentives for states to implement red-flag laws or other crisis intervention programs.
     • Closing the so‑called “boyfriend loophole” by expanding firearm prohibitions for certain domestic-violence offenders.
     • New penalties for straw purchasing and gun trafficking.
   • These measures clearly regulate the acquisition and possession of firearms and are thus treated as federal gun control/safety legislation.

   See detailed descriptions of the BSCA and its characterization as major gun safety legislation in contemporaneous reporting and government summaries.

2. Implication for the prediction

   • The prediction (September 2020) was that there would be no new gun control legislation “for a generation” (roughly 20–30 years).
   • The BSCA was enacted less than two years later (June 2022), well within that time window.
   • Because a substantial, widely recognized federal gun control law was passed, the core claim that there would be no such legislation over that period has already been falsified, even though the full 20–30 years have not elapsed.

Therefore, the prediction is wrong: at least one major piece of federal gun control legislation has in fact been enacted since the statement was made.