ordinary or natural meaning. “Webster’s defines ‘to use’ as ‘[t]o convert to one’s service’ or ‘to employ.’ ” Id., 113 S.Ct. at 2054 (quoting Webster’s New International Dictionary of English Language 2806 (2d ed.1949)). In Smith, — U.S. at -, 113 S.Ct. at 2054, the Court concluded that “§ 924(e)(l)’s language sweeps broadly, punishing any ‘us[e]’ of a firearm, so long as the use is ‘during and in relation to’ a drug trafficking offense.” In interpreting the “in relation to” language of the statute, we have previously stated “it is enough if the firearm is present for protection and to facilitate the likelihood of success, whether or not it is actually used.” United States v. Brockington, 849 F.2d 872, 876 (4th Cir.1988). See also United States v. Paz, 927 F.2d 176, 179 (4th Cir.1991) (<HOLDING>). Stockstill contends that there was
holding that evidence was sufficient to prove defendant constructively possessed the gun where although defendant denied ownership of the gun it was found near a knife of which defendant claimed ownership and where defendant was aware of the presence of the gun holding direct testimony tying a defendant to a gun was not required when the gun was found in the defendants truck and when the defendant had both ammunition for the gun and a rack in which it could have been kept holding that the defendant knew of his accomplices gun and benefitted from its presence for protection holding that testimony regarding a little pistol defendant carried was inadmissible where nothing in the record linked the little pistol to the gun used in the crimes charged holding that because a gun was present and accessible even though under a mattress  there is little question that its presence would help facilitate the success of the criminal undertaking