No, not in the novel, but in real life: The authors father had a gun to protect his family.
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Legend has it that the Reverend Patrick Bronte, father to the three famous literary sisters, frequently let blast with a flintlock pistol at the church tower opposite Haworth parsonage. He had taken to carrying this lethal weapon ever since working in the Hartshead area at the time of the Luddite revolution, when textile workers rebelled against new technology in the early 19th century.
His bizarre habit must have been witnessed by his daughter Emily, because, when she came to write her best seller, Wuthering Heights, she describes the pistol,which had a double-edged spring knife, as the weapon Hindley Earnshaw brandishes in his threat to kill Heathcliffe.
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