@Spelaren I feel obligated to correct myself: Whilst browsing through the first volume of Markku Palokangas's three-part series Sotilaskäsiaseet Suomessa 1918-1988 (Military Firearms in Finland 1918-1988) yesterday, I learned that out of the quoted 84,000 rifles, 77,000 were in fact sold to the Finns, not gifted (a number of other sources erroneously claim otherwise). The remaining little under 7,000 came with the SFK and at least 6,000 of them were returned to Sweden after the war, as were over 20,000 of the purchased rifles still in their crates when the war ended. This sets in doubt the whole quoted list of Swedish "donations": how many were in fact sold, not gifted? Without having specifically investigated the matter at the time of writing this, I will note that I've heard they were sold on credit (which at least is far better than demanding payment up front, and probably the source of the claims of them being donations), and that this includes other things, such as 37mm Bofors cannon. If so, it's not unreasonable to believe that most materiel that came to Finland from Sweden was sold on credit, rather than donated.
From the aforementioned book, page 158, translated by me:
"The fastest bargain was struck with Sweden, with whom connections had been established already before the outbreak of the war. With an agreement made at the beginning of January 1940, 52,000 6.5mm Mauser M/96 rifles and 100 Swedish 6.5mm M/21 LMGs were purchased and delivered already within the same month. In February another 15,000 rifles were purchased and in March a further 10,000. To Finland's fortune, Sweden could afford to hand over such large quantities of rifles out of the country. This was because Sweden's 1925 decision to demilitarize and reduce her armed forces had resulted in a large surplus of rifles left to lie in warehouses.
Although 77,000 rifles were acquired from Sweden during the Winter War according to the statistics of the Finnish Ministry of Defence, in many Swedish sources the reported figure is 84,000. The difference in amount is because the Swedish volunteer force SFK had acquired a separate pool of good armaments through donated funds already in the equipping phase, of which the following weapons were left in Finland after the war:
-6,851 M/96 rifles
-939 M/94 carabines
-204 M/21 LMGs
-40 M/14 HMGs
-858 M/07 pistols
-30 Boys AT rifles
The amount of Swedish infantry rifles however decreased during the spring of 1940, as Finland consequently returned 6,000 of the SFK's rifles, and once peace had come, the remaining unloaded shipments of rifles (altogether over 20,000 rifles)."
EDIT: Another source mentions that one Finnish influential citizen, Ragnar Nordström, purchased another 2,000 rifles from Sweden for the Lapland front. The source also mentions that the SFK brought with it 7,900 rifles, and that 31,000 rifles in total were returned (specifying the "over 20,000" to 25,000 and 6,000 SFK rifles). Thus the total amount of Swedish rifles in or travelling to Finland at the end of the Winter War was 86,900 rifles, of which only the above list of SFK armaments left in Finland after the war were essentially donated, though even almost all of that was returned. With the exception of a select few cases, materiel was purchased from Sweden, not received for free.
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