Objective: Create a new "Pistol" class weapon which will only spawn once to the map. Any player can press "H", then collect it to use it. (To replace standard pistol.)
The device would use 0 bullets, have 1 in the clip and have a max ammo of one. This would allow the gun to actually "Fire", but not recharge with bullets.
A new bullet type would be needed. Producing a new bullet type in the form of something like Portal_bullet.tik would allow the gun to reference the special "portal bullet". Inside this .tik file would be some form of script which would call a teleport and teledest into existance, with targetnames that are targeted by one another.
The reason it needs to be a pistol is so there can be an entrace (Primary attack) and exit (Secondary).
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Primary attack would make:
$targename portal_in
target portal_out
Secondary would make:
$targename portal_outPhysics note: The MOHAA game will not conserve physical velocity. I made a teleport at the bottom of a tall platform and made a teledest point up. Although some of the momentum did reflect, it was no more than one and a half normal jump hieght. This was constant, no matter how high the initial fall.
I was thinking more along the lines of Bjarne's scout mod 
Actually, I had it running in a very basic shape with velocity conservation (i.e. velocity vector before teleport = velocity vector after teleport) in minutes, but I wanted to work out the entire math behind the magic. I ran into some problems with the transformation (still don't understand why my previous approach didn't work out 
) and put the thing on the shelf for a year and I just had an enlightenment today and finished it.