The move comes after a gang dispute left 46 inmates dead at a women's detention center last week.
The high-security Tamara prison, shown here, is one of two that military police now control.
[Fernando Munoz / Colonel]
"We have begun the searches in order to take control of the jails...
Colonel Fernando Munoz told reporters that the weapons and ammo shown here were seized from only one area in the prison controlled by the Barrio 18 gang and accounted for only 5% of total inspections.
Although the official capacity of the prison is 2,500, more than 4,200 people are crammed into this facility.
A United Nations report said that the country's 26 prisons are around 34% over capacity.
Some on the streets of the capital told Reuters the military control doesn't go far enough to stop the violence.
[Jesus Chavez / Tegucigalpa resident]
"I think that new measures have to be put in place. First of all, the prisons have to be restructured; new jails have to be built. Also, to train and educate the staff working in the prisons and a new army because the police and the army are complicit in this violence."
The takeover is part of a push by leftist president Xiomara Castro to eliminate organized crime inside prisons,
and a departure from her previous stance of demilitarization.
The images resemble those from El Salvador earlier this year,
Where the government has beefed up prison security and locked up more than 62,000 alleged criminals in a crackdown on gangs.
