This one, regardless of how any government agency might classify it. Similar to, but not quite as inaccurate as calling a magazine a "clip". Once again, if you are among friends - specifically knowledgeable gun owners - you can call it a silencer and they will know what you mean within the context of the topic.
When in mixed company or otherwise, I always refer to them as suppressors, not to be politically correct, but to be accurate and most importantly to help eliminate the impression given by Hollywood movies and the media of "OMG! Silencers!
Only bad guys and assassins use silencers! Those things should be banned! Similarly, ATF classifies everything that fires more than one round with each pull of the trigger as a "machine gun" even though the term used to mean -and should still mean - a fully automatic belt-fed weapon (may in some cases come equipped with a selector switch for semi), as differentiated from a magazine-fed select-fire rifle or carbine.
The main point of this is to not only get used to accurate terminology, but to move your audience from an influence of "those oughta be banned" to "I want one, too, and these bureaucratic and statutory infringements on my birthright are bull****."
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(This was usually skipped over as no big deal 'cause we wanted to move along to a related, yet different topic, such as the noise reduction device that will attach to it, and whether or not it will require a proprietary mount.)
