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The new death masque rule book the sniper rule does not state you need to be stationary to fire it. This makes some units downright scary if so. So stalker bolters now don't slow down deathwatch AM sniper's can shoot and move? do you half the range? or use the normal profile whilst moving?

You don't have to be stationary to fire sniper based weapons in 40k. Most of them are heavy and if you move you are forced to snap fire. I don't have that book, so i don't know the profile it's using, but based on BRB it doesn't change much.

Necron Deathmark have sniper weapons that are assault, but you still don't see them often.
Sniper is an ok rule and you pay threw the nose for that special ammo, so I don't really see how it is all that scary.

Popular misconception that Snipers need to be stationary. This is because almost all weapons that have the Sniper Rule also have the Heavy Rule. But a number of rare, off to the side weapons have Sniper but not heavy.

Notable ones from memory is Marbo's pistol, the Vindicare's Exitus Pistol (not his rifle), and the aforementioned Deathmarks. Marbo hasn't been legal in a while now, the Vindicare is more likely to use his Rifle than his pistol, and Deathmarks are generally not seen as frequently on the tabletop and the Necrons have easy access to Relentless so it's easy to miss this.

The Tau Longshot rifles are sniper and rapid fire.. too

And on a relentless platform.

A slow and purposeful IC joining any squad full of heavy sniper equipped models will also allow move and fire.

Not that any of this really matters as all the Stalker-pattern boltgun ammo is heavy 2.

The sniper rule does not have to say anything about the model not moving(unless it wanted to circumvent weapon type and special rules that modify weapon type movement restrictions).

The whole weapon profile matters, there really isn't a rules question as presented here. If you need help with weapon profiles and how to read them; we can(and would be happy to) explain them.

30k vets have sniper too, sniper heavy flamers...

Ok you guys cleared things up for me.