No they did not have to pay for their gun.
Times have changed now the current Swiss soldiers need to pay for the modification (auto to semi-auto) of their Stgw90's when they want to keep that one.
Thanks,
Guisan.
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Fight to your last cartridge, then fight with your bayonets.
No surrender. Fight to the death.
--Gen. Henri Guisan, Switzerland, July '40
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