finding that Matheny did not act in self defense, the district court did not err in denying his motion for judgment of acquittal. Next, Matheny contends that there was insufficient evidence that he “used” the firearm within the meaning of the statute. Without a citation to any case law, Matheny avers that, when referring to a firearm, “uses” in § 111(b) requires that the defendant “discharge the weapon or attempt to discharge the weapon.” We find that Matheny’s definition is without support. In a § 111(b) prosecution, a court “must apply the ‘ordinary or natural’ meaning of the word ‘use,’ variously defined as ‘[t]o convert to one’s service,’ ‘to employ,’ ‘to avail oneself of,’ and ‘to carry out a purpose or action by means of.’ ” U.S. v. Williams, 520 F.3d 414, 421 (5th Cir.2008) (<HOLDING>). Moreover, in a similar context, interpreting
holding that swinging and brandishing a shank constituted use under  111b holding defendants minimum sentence could not be increased for brandishing a firearm where based on jury instructions jury convicted defendant of the lesser offense of carrying rather than brandishing the firearm holding that use of borrowed funds constituted a preference because the funds constituted hard cash available for distribution to creditors holding that fact that robbers issued explicit threats while brandishing and pointing their firearms menacingly was not sufficient to constitute otherwise use of the firearm holding that  use certainly includes brandishing  a firearm quotation marks omitted