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Compared to a gunless neighbor, if the potential neighbor owned a pistol, the probability that respondents would choose to live near them dropped by 9 percentage points.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Among these pro-gun groups, respondents were about 5 to 16 percentage points less likely to choose a neighbor with an AR-15, when the alternative was a gunless neighbor.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

If only Aranoa had shorn his hangdog movie down to Robbins and Del Toro alone—a pair of patient no-hopers, bulky and bearded, ruing the wreckage of Eastern Europe like gunless cowboys eying the old West.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

So here they sat, gunless, carless, with 3,600 square miles to patrol and limited resources to do it.

From Washington Post

As we'd come late, I hadn't got the hang of the piece before, but now I notices it's one of them gunless Wild West plays that's hit Broadway so hard.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell