According to Breitbart News, the group - the Houston, Texas-based Armed Citizen Project - says it will sponsor a "National Empowerment Day" aimed at training and arming 500 single mothers and other women across the country. The date for the event is Aug. 10 and will represent a "massive expansion of the group's efforts," according to its executive director, Kyle Coplen, who spoke to Breitbart News exclusively.

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"We will be working with shooting ranges and gun clubs across the country," he said.

"There exists a subtle misogyny used in the messaging of anti-gun groups, keeping women dependent on others to provide their protection, when our nation's constitution makes clear they have the right to provide this protection for themselves," Coplen added.