the requirements of intermediate scrutiny under First Amendment case law.) The Court finds that section 922(k) passes constitutional muster under these requirements: the purpose of the statute is to assist law enforcement in tracing weapons via their serial numbers; the connection between this objective and the statute is reasonable because common sense dictates that “[fjirearms without serial numbers are of particular value to those engaged in illicit activity because the absence of serial numbers helps shield recovered firearms and their possessors from identification”; and the regulation only reaches conduct that has a substantial risk of rendering a firearm untraceable because it does not, in any way, limit the possession of any specific class of firearms. Id. at 98-99 (<HOLDING>) Thus, the Court finds that section 922(k)
holding that aesthetics and neighborhood preservation are not sufficiently compelling interests to withstand strict scrutiny analysis holding contribution limits even those that operate as a ban not subject to strict scrutiny holding that section 922k passes muster under intermediate scrutiny and would also pass muster under a strict scrutiny analysis holding a mandatory sentence is still subject to constitutional scrutiny holding that such a classification could not pass muster under the strict scrutiny required by the massachusetts equal rights amendment