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Moms Unleash Their Anguish, Anger Thousands March to End Gun Violence, Renew Assault Weapons Ban By Eric Rich and Theola Labbé Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, May 10, 2004; Page B01 Several thousand people, most of them women, gathered on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol yesterday for the largest gun-control demonstration in four years, a loud and calculated effort aimed at forcing President Bush to renew the soon-to-expire federal ban on assault weapons. The rally lacked the star power, and certainly the numbers, of the first Million Mom March in 2000, when hundreds of thousands of women flooded...