Mike Stollenwerk is a Policy Fellow of the Liberty Coalition. He chairs the Fairfax County Privacy Council (a volunteer citizens’ privacy watchdog group in Virginia), serves on the Virginia General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Technology & Science’s SSN Advisory Committee, is an executive member of the Virginia Citizen’s Defense League (Virginia’s large and aggressive grass roots gun rights group), and co-founded OpenCarry.org (an educational web site and electronic discussion board dedicated to explaining and promoting Americans’ existing rights to carry handguns openly in most states of the United States).
In February 2004, Mike prevailed in federal court against the Pennsylvania State Police to quash Pennsylvania’s statute requiring that Americans possess and disclose a social security number to apply for a gun carry license or buy guns from a gun dealer (see Stollenwerk v. Miller, Slip Copy, 2006 WL 463393, (E.D. Pa. 2006)(Pennsylvania statute requiring persons to disclose an SSN to buy a gun or obtain a gun carry license violates Section 7 of the Federal Privacy Act).
Stollenwerk retired from the US Army in the grade of Lieutenant Colonel after serving over 24 years on active duty where he served in various armored cavalry units in Germans and the United States, as well as an assistant professor of economics on the US Military Academy faculty at West Point, an economic consultant to Business Executives for National Security, a research fellow for the RAND Corporation, and a senior military campaign analyst for the Center for Army Analysis.
He holds a B.S. in economics from the US Military Academy, an M.B.A in financial engineering from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.M.A.S. in military strategy from the US Army Command and General Staff College’s School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), and is currently pursuing a J.D. at Georgetown University Law Center.
