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Texas Senator Ted Cruz repeated a false claim about California Senator Dianne Feinstein and guns during Thursday night’s GOP presidential candidates debate in South Carolina.

Cruz said at the debate: "California Senator, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said if she could say to Mr. America and Mrs. America, 'Give me your guns, I'm rounding 'em up,' she would."

Cruz's claim is at the 9:30 minute mark in the video above.

The Texas Republican made a nearly identical claim Jan. 7 in a CNN interview. We ruled it false.

In that interview, Cruz told CNN : "I’ll tell you who I do take at her word is Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who said: ‘If I could go to Mr. America, Mrs. America, and say, hand over your guns, I want all of your guns, I would do it.’"

We focused on Cruz's provocative comments that Feinstein said she wanted Americans to "hand over your guns, I want all your guns."

We learned Cruz took a statement Feinstein made in 1995 about the assault weapons ban she authored far, far out of context.

No love lost

Cruz and Feinstein are about as far apart on gun rights as any politicians in Washington D.C. The senators famously sparred in 2013, during Feinstein’s unsuccessful attempt to pass a revamped assault weapons ban.

At a Senate hearing, the longtime California senator accused Cruz of giving her a "lecture" on constitutional rights.

"I’m not a sixth grader," Feinstein told Cruz, during a terse exchange. "I come from a different place than you. I respect your views. I ask you to respect my views."

Cruz had suggested Feinstein was trying to pick apart the Second Amendment, in a way she would never try with the First or Fourth Amendments.

Cruz is among the biggest gun rights backers in the GOP presidential candidate field. As Texas solicitor general, he led a successful fight before the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Washington D.C. gun ban in 2008.

His defense of the Second Amendment has continued this winter in stump speeches from New Hampshire to Nevada.

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) meets with attendees Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, during a campaign stop at Granite State Indoor Range in Hudson, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)