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Aus­tralian fed­er­al and state gov­ern­ment lead­ers on Mon­day agreed to im­me­di­ate­ly over­haul al­ready-tough na­tion­al gun con­trol laws af­ter a mass shoot­ing tar­get­ed a Hanukkah cel­e­bra­tion on Syd­ney’s Bon­di Beach, leav­ing at least 15 peo­ple dead.

The ac­tion would in­clude rene­go­ti­at­ing the land­mark na­tion­al firearms agree­ment that vir­tu­al­ly banned rapid-fire ri­fles af­ter a lone gun­man killed 35 peo­ple in Tas­ma­nia in 1996, gal­va­niz­ing the coun­try in­to ac­tion, the nine lead­ers’ said in a state­ment af­ter an emer­gency meet­ing.

The vi­o­lence erupt­ed at the end of a sum­mer day when thou­sands had flocked to Bon­di Beach, an icon of Aus­tralia’s cul­tur­al life. They in­clud­ed hun­dreds gath­ered for the “Chanukah by the Sea” event cel­e­brat­ing the start of the eight-day Hanukkah fes­ti­val with food, face paint­ing and a pet­ting zoo.