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My third problem with you is that you still have not addressed the volume of false positives, though you imply they are minimal. Yet the info you cited claimed 45,000 felons... so if 120,000 were stopped, that means 75,000 were non-felons. To you, this may be trivial...
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While I don't agree with the tone of his argument either, there's a possible hole in your logic as well here.
If 120,000 were stopped, 45,000 were felons, that does indeed leave 75,000 people. Even IF we concede the "felons" category includes those convicted of a prohibiting domestic violence crime, At least some of those 75,000 would/could also be illegal aliens, those adjudicated mentally deficient, subject to a restraining order, under current indictment, voluntarily renounced citizenship, and any others I may have forgotten. The "felons" category in the NICS Database is neither the first nor the second most prolific category for sourced records.