Yes. In fact, the ‘Results’ section in the paper linked from the article (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aed3904) says, in its first sentence:

Any analysis of individual arming decisions must account for purely individual reasons to own guns (e.g., for use in hunting) and the cost of possible confrontations that are ubiquitous in society and, depending on others’ arming decisions, can involve guns (e.g., fear of a confrontation with an armed neighbor).