But look at the 2nd amendment voting records. Hoeffel is 100% anti-gun, Specter is only 14% anti-gun.
Specter is solidly pro-self defense and the right to personal protection. Hoeffel would happily follow England's lead and ban personal gun ownership including hunting rifles.
I have to disagree with you on Specter's gun voting record. The only gun group to have EVER endorsed him is the NRA. They did that even after he voted for some of the most vile anti gun legislation to go through the Senate. The bad mouthed him in their own magazine and this time around, they endorsed him again because he was the incumbent. The JPFO didn't endorse him. GOA didn't endorse him. RKBA.com wouldn't endorse him. My local gun rights group, FOAC, has never endorsed him.
Recently in another town hall meeting, he admitted that he erred when he voted for the 93 AWB because it violated our 2nd Amendment rights and didn't not have any effect on crime. Yet, a minute later when I pressed him on it and asked whether he would vote for it again if it came up as part of an 'important must pass' package, he said yes almost before I finished the question. He will vote for any gun control measure if he can find some political cover for doing so.
(I also believe that the recent gun legislation votes were more for show than anything else. Everyone got to record a vote that would make their constituents happy and no one had to do anything substantial.)
He will not even acknowledge the true purpose and reason for the 2nd Amendment and only gives lip service to any other aspect of gun ownership.