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By Mark Heinz

Wyoming Republican U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis is backing a push to lift 90-year-old restrictions on short-barreled rifles and pistols, which a Wyoming firearms law expert called “silly.”

Lummis on Thursday jointed the co-sponsors of S. 1162 the SHORT Act, in the U.S. Senate. The bill calls an amendment of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as it relates to the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA).

The NFA restricted civilian access to such things as fully-automatic weapons and “short-barreled” rifles and shotguns.

The NFA was implemented over worries about weapons wielded by Prohibition-era gangsters, said George Mocsary, director of the Firearms Research Center at the University of Wyoming and professor at the UW College of Law.

Even back then, restrictions on short-barreled firearms didn’t do anything to make the public safer, Mocsary told Cowboy State Daily.

“It’s silly. Just silly,” he said.

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By Leo Wolfson

An endorsement from President Donald Trump holds a lot of weight in the Cowboy State, which has supported Trump’s bids for president with a larger margin than any other state for three elections in a row.

On Wednesday night, Trump endorsed U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis’ 2026 reelection bid.

“Cynthia is fighting tirelessly to grow the economy, cut taxes and regulations, secure our border, defend our always under siege Second Amendment, strengthen our incredible military/vets and put our great farmers, ranchers, and energy producers first,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “Senator Cynthia Lummis has my complete and total endorsement for re-election- she will never let you down!”

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By Leo Wolfson

Billions former President Joe Biden’s administration earmarked for electrical vehicles would go toward Wyoming highways and U.S. interstates under legislation U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis proposed on Wednesday.

The Highway Funding Flexibility Act would pull what’s left of a $7.5 billion multiyear federal investment from the electric vehicle charging station mandates that Biden put in place and redirect it toward fixing federally-funded highways, bridges, wildlife crossings and other transportation features in America.

“For far too long, the people of Wyoming were forced to endure Biden’s radical EV mandates that dedicated their hard-earned tax dollars toward Green New Deal initiatives that do not effectively serve the state of Wyoming,” Lummis said in a Wednesday statement. “My legislation frees up these funds to address Wyoming’s actual transportation needs without adding to the national debt, rather than forcing Biden-era EV mandates on the Cowboy State.”

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By Bradley Jaye

Senate Democrats are moving Wednesday to block Trump’s national energy emergency in a gesture of opposition to the president’s actions to lower energy prices and deliver on a key campaign pledge.

“During his campaign, President Trump emphasized the connection between a robust energy economy and getting inflation under control further,” Lummis told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “It creates jobs, it creates energy in the country that is best able to produce clean energy, and that’s the United States.”

On his first day in office, Trump declared a national energy emergency to unleash American energy production after energy prices skyrocketed under former President Joe Biden. Biden moved to halt oil and natural gas leases, banned offshore drilling, and sought to require a majority of new cars sold in the U.S. to be electric vehicles or hybrids by 2032, Breitbart News’ Sean Moran reported.

The burden hit all Americans, especially those in Lummis’s home state – “Wyoming exports 12 times more energy than it consumes,” Lummis emphasized. But Trump’s designation of a national energy emergency is both increasing energy availability and lowering costs as well as furthering clean energy efforts.

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By Sean Barry

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Cynthia Lummis served as Wyoming’s lone U.S. House representative, Barack Obama was president for all eight years of her tenure.

Then the Wyoming Republican stepped away from politics during Donald Trump’s first term in the White House.

In 2020, she won one of the state’s two U.S. Senate seats — only to see the first four years of her term run concurrently with Joe Biden’s administration.

Control of the House and Senate has swung back and forth during her time in Washington, but with a Democrat as president for all 12 of her years in the nation’s capital, Lummis often found herself trudging uphill.

Not anymore.

Thanks to the 2024 elections, Lummis and her conservative colleagues have gone on offense, emboldened by Trump’s victory and Republican majorities on both sides of Capitol Hill.

Nowhere does their empowerment figure to be more consequential than on energy policy, and Lummis plays an important role in this area.

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Opinion By Sen. Cynthia Lummis , Riley Gaines

Athletes know when they step onto the court, they are stepping into battle. Their jerseys are the armor, and the ball is the ammunition. For female athletes across the nation, winning the battle is much harder when their opponent is a bigger, faster and stronger male.

The Wyoming Cowgirls volleyball team faced the decision to either forfeit their matches against San Jose State University (SJSU) whose women’s volleyball team included a male, or risk injury from a volleyball being spiked at 80 mph. The Cowgirls courageously put their safety first, willing to accept a loss to protect the integrity of women’s sports everywhere.

The University of Wyoming (UW) joined three other Mountain West schools in forfeiting games against SJSU, including Utah State, Boise State and Nevada. The Mountain West Conference and the NCAA are two of countless governing bodies that continue to fail girls and women across the country.

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