America’s highest court – which has come under fire in recent weeks for a leaked draft that would overturn women’s federal abortion rights – is expected to issue a decision in the case, brought by a New York gun group that wants the permit law repealed, in the coming weeks.

The tough-on-crime mayor went on to explain how he believes cities like New York are being overlooked by lawmakers looking to nix the law – which requires Big Apple residents to obtain a concealed carry permit before being allowed to carry a gun on the city’s streets.

‘In densely populated communities like New York, this ruling could have a major impact on us,’ Adams, 61, said, before adding that his team was exploring potential ways to respond to the expected ruling.

‘We are now looking with our legal experts to see what we can do,’ said Adams, who campaigned last year on cleaning up the city’s crime-ridden streets.

‘But we should all be concerned.’

The lawsuit behind the looming guidance was filed by the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association (NYSRPA) last year, and was sent to the US’ top court in November after being dismissed by New York’s circuit court – the second tier of the country’s court system.

The suit argues the licensing law comes in violation of the Second Amendment, since it only allows concealed carry permits to be issued to those who can show ‘proper cause’ for keeping a hidden weapon on their person in public – a stipulation that is rarely met by gunowners applying for the permit.

During oral arguments in the case last year, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito – the jurist who penned the leaked Roe vs. Wade repeal draft – conceded that it was not fair that ‘law-abiding people’ are barred from carrying firearms on the city’s crime-riddled subway system, while lawbreakers continue to carry weapons illegally.

‘All these people with illegal guns: They’re on the subway, walking around the streets, but ordinary, hard-working, law-abiding people, no,’ Alito told New York state’s solicitor general Barbara Underwood. ‘They can’t be armed.’

The statement from the jurist perturbed gun control advocates, who saw the remark as a sign that Alito and his right-leaning contemporaries on the court were plotting to rescind the law.

Also on Tuesday, another shootout in the Bronx saw an NYPD officer shot by a suspect who had been on the streets awaiting sentencing for a prior gun charge.

The officer was the eighth cop to get shot in the city this year.

Gun arrests are up 28 percent, and the NYPD has removed 2,600 illegal guns from the streets this year, Adams said during the presser, touting the numbers.

However, major crime is still up 41 percent compared to last year.

Adams said he expects to get crime under control by the end of January.

‘New Yorkers should be living in a safe city right now, based on the actions of the police department,’ the mayor said, before blaming woke city officials for lax laws that see repeat offenders released while awaiting sentencing.

‘The problem is we did our job of getting guns off the street. Keeping the shooters off the streets is still failing,’ Adams said. ‘And so unclog our courts, start to sentence these shooters, modify those parts of the laws that allow shooters to come back onto our streets – those are the pieces that we need that are missing.’