Also, it was only in the immediate war scare of 1940 that the LDV were poorly armed - they were soon provided with, if not front line arms, then certainly sufficient to deal with a necessarily small go up of saboteurs.
As 2nd line Light Infantry the Home Guard in Invasion areas were every well equipped by late 1940 early 1941. Rifles would be a mix of .303 P14 Enfields, .30-06 M1917 Enfields and 1903 Springfields, LMGs were a mix of .303 and .30-06 Lewis guns and a few .303 Hotchkiss portatives. Home Guard areas were kept seperate as .303 or .30-06 units so there would be less supply confusion.
The real sabotuer killers would probably have been the GHQ Auxillary Units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Units who were basically part time special forces and would have been a nasty shock for anyone.
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