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Chris Sommerfeldt

‘Be very afraid’: Mayor Adams predicts peril in NYC if Supreme Court strikes down gun license law

NEW YORK — Welcome to Fear City 2.0.

New Yorkers should be “very afraid” of what will happen on city streets if the Supreme Court strikes down a state law requiring a license for carrying a concealed firearm, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday.

The Supreme Court is in coming weeks expected to issue a decision in a case brought by a New York gun group that wants the long-standing weapon license law repealed — and Adams said at a news conference in Harlem that he has a hunch about how the top court will rule.

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