It's hard to feel safe in Indiana with people using shotguns. Give all those idiots on opening morning a high powered rifle and things would be worse. I doubt you are going to get a law changed because you can't afford to buy a new gun. If you need less recoil the available rifle rounds will work, if you want more range a good muzzle loader will get that. I might be in the minority but I think the laws are fine the way they are in Indiana.