How does the NICS Improvement Act improve the information available for NICS checks? The NICS Improvement Act seeks to improve the information available to the NICS, so that the system can more accurately identify prohibited persons, by: -- Enhancing the Brady Act requirement that federal departments and agencies provide relevant information to the NICS; and Ten million dollars has been appropriated for fiscal year 2009. Additionally, the Byrne grant penalties are deferred until 2011, are discretionary from 2011 to 2017, and become mandatory in 2018. |
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