Thanks for the great response — a number of very thoughtful posts in this forum. I have read them all (as of 2/10). Additionally, I received several dozen personal email responses on the issue, to which I have also responded. Many good stories, many useful arguments, some helpful specific suggestions. At a high level, I …
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Gun Law Updates
More good information about gun issues is coming together online and in community forums.
What share of guns in private hands were acquired from private sellers?
An important question in the national debate is what share of weapons are acquired from private sellers. Private sellers do not need to conduct background checks when they make sales. The President, in his proposal to require background checks for all gun sales states: Right now, federally licensed firearms dealers are required to run background …
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Share your Stories
As we start the session taking a fresh approach to the non-competition problem, it would be helpful to collect stories about situations created by non-competition agreements. Click here for more background. Please share your story as a reply to this topic.
2013 Reform Bill
In 2013, Representative Ehrlich and I have filed a simplified version of our non-competition reform bill. Click here for the story behind this legislation. Click here for fuller background. The basic elements of the bill are: An employee non-competition agreement longer than six months is presumed unreasonable — under current judge-made law, agreements of a …
Reforming Non-Competition Agreements
It’s to reform non-competition agreements. They are often unfair to employees and may be strangling our tech sector.