Closed · BJS-2020-17635 · CFDA 16.813 · Discretionary

FY 2020 NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP)

Federal grant opportunity posted by Bureau of Justice Statistics, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$11.5M-$23M
Award range
Closed
Status
April 23, 2020
Close date
28
Expected awards

The verdict

FY 2020 NICS Act Record Improvement Program (NARIP) is a closed discretionary listing from Bureau of Justice Statistics that offered $11,500,000 -- $23,000,000 across 28 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 233 other opportunities from Bureau of Justice Statistics.

$11.5M-$23M
award range
Closed
application status
28
expected awards
16.813
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

FY 2020 NICS Act Record Improvement Program is closed (last close April 23, 2020). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Bureau of Justice Statistics still indexes 233 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed April 23, 2020

Posted Feb 12 Closes Apr 23

Est. Total Funding

$23,000,000

Expected Awards

28

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-180), codified at 34 U.S.C. §40912 (NIAA), was signed into law on January 8, 2008, in the wake of the April 2007 shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech shooter was able to purchase firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) because information about his prohibiting mental health history was not available to the NICS, and the system was therefore unable to deny the transfer of the firearms used in the shootings. The NIAA seeks to address the gap in information available to NICS about such prohibiting mental health adjudications and commitments, and other prohibiting factors. Filling these information gaps will better enable the system to operate as it was intended to keep guns out of the hands of persons prohibited by federal or state law from receiving or possessing firearms. The automation of records also reduces delays for law-abiding persons to purchase firearms.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · BJS-2020-17635

Grants.gov marks FY 2020 NICS Act Record Improvement Program with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Income Security and Social Services (IS). This eligibility-code string dominates the Bureau of Justice Statistics book (184 peers, 79% of 234).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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What to do next

FY 2020 NICS Act Record Improvement Program is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

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